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EastGen members in Zones 1, 4, 7 and 10 are invited to submit nominations for a Director in their respective Zone for a three-year term.
Any member seeking election as a director or any current director seeking re-election must file a signed, written nomination (early nomination form attached), co-signed by another member within the same zone. The nomination may be forwarded by mail or email to the Secretary of the Board (Brian O’Connor) and must be received by 5:00 p.m. on the last Friday in October (October 25, 2024). Email address is brian.oconnor@eastgen.ca.

Each director shall have attained the age of majority (18 years) and at the time of election
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Boviteq is thrilled to announce the strategic selection of a new licensee location in Spain. This new IVF partner will combine its local intelligence with Boviteq knowledge to deliver the industry’s leading IVF services to clients.

Now, clients in Spain and Portugal through Embriovet have access to Boviteq’s excellent products and services, promising a brighter future for the industry.

“With the growth in IVF services and the extreme demand for our product worldwide, we seek partners to work shoulder-to-shoulder with bovine producers.  Embriovet is a logical choice,” says Melissa Bowers, Semex Vice President, Embryo Division. “Embriovet and Dr. Daniel Bello share our values of excellent service and client relationships along with an embryo philosophy that meshes with our own, making them ideal partners.”

"We are very excited to be partners with Boviteq,” says Dr. Bello. “We have worked in the embryo world for 30 years and always seek excellence. With Boviteq, we take a qualitative leap by incorporating the most advanced technology and accessing the knowledge and experience accumulated by one of the most prestigious groups recognized worldwide. Our clients make significant efforts and investments in genetic improvement and deserve that we support them with the best tools at our disposal. Improving the production of high-quality in vitro embryos with proven freezing technology that facilitates direct transfer will rejuvenate the domestic and export markets, giving us a solid base from which to grow.”

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Semex is excited to announce that it is one of 13 semi-finalists from 86 applications in Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada’s Agricultural Methane Reduction Challenge. Announced by the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, this $12M Challenge encourages innovators to develop and deploy economically viable and scalable practices, processes, and technologies designed to reduce enteric methane emissions produced by cattle. As a semi-finalist, Semex receives a non-refundable grant of $153,846 and is eligible to win additional funding in the later stages of the competition. With help from Lactanet, Semex proposed developing a breeding protocol and strategy that incentivizes dairymen to use low-methane genetics and measures, records, and verifies methane reductions over time. Semex is grateful to its partners, Lactanet and Dairy Farmers of Canada, for their collaboration and partnership in this project. For more information on this Challenge, click here.
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The theme for EastGen’s 2024 youth events was “Youth Leading Our Future.” Keeping
this in mind, participants sported lime green shirts on show day emblazoned with
this slogan – a sign of achievements to come from youth in agriculture. Each year
EastGen organizes and solely sponsors a series of
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Le thème des événements jeunesse 2024 d’EastGen était « Les jeunes orientent notre
avenir ». Gardant cela à l’esprit, les participants ont porté des gilets vert lime arborant ce slogan – un signe des réalisations des jeunes
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GUELPH, ON – The theme for EastGen’s 2024 youth events was “Youth Leading Our Future.” Keeping this in mind, participants sported lime green shirts on show day emblazoned with this slogan – a sign of achievements to come from youth in agriculture. Each year EastGen organizes and solely sponsors
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Semex is pleased to announce a new leadership team at Semex Argentina, with the retirement of General Manager Jorge Carcano and the promotion of Alejandro Luque to General Manager effective January 2, 2025. Alejandro is well-tenured at Semex, first joining in 2018 as an Administrative Manager and most recently serving as Manager of Logistics, Finance & Administration.

Alejandro will be assisted by division leaders, Dr. Joaquin Pincetti, as Semex Argentina's Director of Commercial Dairy, and Augusto Jordan, as Semex Argentina's, Director of Commercial Beef.

Jorge Carcano successfully led Semex Argentina since its inception in 1997, guiding the Argentinian Team through numerous challenges, while achieving exceptional results in both dairy and beef markets, most recently selling over 840,000 doses in 2023. Jorge remains at Semex Argentina, assisting with this leadership transition.

"Jorge has been an excellent General Manager for our Argentinian Team and we're grateful for his dedication and guidance through this transition," says Horacio Larrea, Semex’s Director of International Sales. “I know this new team puts our future in good hands. Alejandro, Joaquin, and Augusto have each developed their careers at Semex Argentina, and we look forward to them taking our business to new levels of success.”
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EastGen welcomed sales and solutions teams from our Semex partners Ciaq and WestGen for the second Canadian Partners Sales Conference, held June 18-20th in the Guelph, ON area. Building upon an outstanding conference that was hosted by
Ciaq and held in St-Hyacinthe, QC two years ago, that inaugural event set the pace with a roster of speakers who inspired thinking. The discussion and sharing of ideas among participants helped focus the entire
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