Women in Agriculture- Macdonald Campus

Thank you so much everyone for participating in Wednesday's event! It led to great discussions and reflections.

Special thank you to Jessica Rouleau, Juno Jaye, Nancy Lamothe and Marie-Eve Lepage for their openness and their time.

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Merci à tou.te.s d'avoir participé à l'événement de mercredi! Ce fût une belle opportunité pour réfléchir et discuter de défis que l'on vit ou qui nous attendent.

Un merci particulier à Jessica Rouleau, Juno Jaye, Nancy Lamothe et Marie-Eve Lepage pour leur temps et leur ouverture!

Unfortunately, we have to postpone our event " Women in Agricultural Institutions- Discussion Panel" until January.

We'll be back soon with more info.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

The meeting is today 5:30 at the Ceilidh! See you there :)

Hello hello!

The first meeting of the club will be held Tuesday October 8 at 17:30 in the Ceilidh. We'll be discussing the upcoming activities for the year.

If you want to get involved or help out in any ways, please come by!

- Marie

Thank you to everyone who came to the welding workshop last Thursday! Here a some shots of the event to remember how fun it was melting metal with 6000F flames.

Hello to all "Women in Agriculture" enthusiasts,

We will be holding the club's first 2019 meeting tomorrow (Jan 22) at 5:30 at the Ceilidh. We will discuss activities and workshops for the upcoming semester, as well as new ideas and orientation for the club. You are very welcome to join us and add to the discussion!

Hi all!

The event is coming up soon and in the next few days we will be posting more info on our guest speakers.

The first in line: Jenna Soesbergen!

Here is her short bio:

Jenna Soesbergen was born on a dairy and cash crop farm in Dundee, Quebec. Growing up, she was very involved in the 4-H program, becoming president of her local club and then president of Quebec 4-H once in University. She graduated from McGill University in 2010 with a Bachelors degree in Agriculture and Agroenvironmental Sciences. In September of that same year Jenna Soesbergen was admitted into the Ordre des Agromomes du Quebec. Straight out of university she got a job as a Sales Representative for Agocentre Fertibec Inc. She covered cash crop farmers in southwest Quebec and was also specialized in agro-environmental questions. The 8 years spent at Agrocentre Fertibec Inc allowed her to meet a lot of great farmers and really understand the many different farming techniques and styles. She made the decision to return to the family farm in 2016, working part time, at the same time keeping her job as a sales rep. She missed being on the farm a lot, so in May 2018 she quit her job to start farming full time with her father, uncle, cousin and brother. They currently milk 95 cows in a milking parlour in their freestall barn and crop 650 acres.

pictures from the Women in Agriculture Panel discussion Nov 14 2017