{"id":208260,"date":"2019-11-09T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T19:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/?p=208260"},"modified":"2019-11-15T11:11:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T18:11:44","slug":"alberta-families-recognized-in-50th-annual-bmo-farm-family-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/?p=208260","title":{"rendered":"Alberta Families Recognized in 50th Annual BMO Farm Family Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;4px|||||&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.0.6&#8243; hover_enabled=&#8221;0&#8243;]<h2><em>13 farm families will be honoured today as 2019 <\/em><em>Farmfair International BMO Farm Family Award Winners<\/em><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Edmonton, AB:<\/strong> For 50 years, BMO has recognized farm families from across northern and central Alberta with the BMO Farm Family Awards. Families are nominated from 20 counties across the region by other members of their community. Once nominated, the Northern and Central Agricultural Service Boards select outstanding families who best represent values of the family farm within their rural community. The award honours both their farming business practices and community involvement.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re proud to announce the recipients of the <a href=\"https:\/\/farmfairinternational.com\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 BMO Farm Family Awards<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>From the County of Barrhead, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Clarence &amp; Rose Olthuis of Sunburst Farms Ltd.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Beaver County, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kent and Stacey Rude<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Clearwater County, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wayne and Sharyn Terpsma<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Lac La Biche County, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jim and Evelyn Malbeuf of Malbeuf Farm<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Northern Sunrise County, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Will and Joan Petluk of P-Nutz Farm Inc<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>From the Municipal District of Peace, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Robert and Carrie Dickson of Mighty Peace Honey<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Saddle Hills County, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doug and Lyla Yanishewski<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the Municipal District of Smoky River, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bernard and Monique Maisonneuve<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the County of St. Paul, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kevin and Janice Wirsta of K-Cow Ranch<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From Strathcona County, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Carol and Darrel Maier of Country Road Greenhouses<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the County of Two Hills, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Greg and Marie Lychak<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the County of Vermilion River, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF12\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Todd and Janine Hames of Hames Ridge Farm Ltd.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>From the County of Wetaskiwin, <a href=\"\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/#FF13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Randy and Sandy Lorentz of Sunrise Farms.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They\u2019ll each be honoured at Farmfair International on Saturday, November 9 at the BMO Farm Family Awards Gala and receive a commemorative gate sign.<\/p>\n<p>As a proud supporter of Alberta\u2019s agriculture industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/northlands.com\/\">Northlands<\/a> is grateful for the hard work these families do as vital contributors to agriculture and their rural roots. \u201cAs leaders in Alberta\u2019s agriculture industry, winning farm families share the same deep roots in their communities and great passion for farming and ranching,\u201d said Peter Male, President and CEO of Northlands. \u201cWe hope that these precious family legacies carry on for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBMO has proudly supported the Canadian agriculture community for over 200 years, and this is an opportunity for us to give back and recognize the families that are making significant contributions to the rural way of life,\u201d said Lynda Taylor, Regional President of Business Banking, Prairies Central, BMO Bank of Montreal. \u201cThe BMO Farm Family Awards recognize the accomplishments and contributions made by farm families and their commitment to growing the good in their communities. Congratulations to this year\u2019s recipient families.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about this year\u2019s BMO Farm Family award recipients at Farmfair International by <a href=\"https:\/\/farmfairinternational.com\/events-exhibitors\/special-events\/bmo-farm-family-awards-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visiting here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/farmfairinternational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Farmfair International<\/a>, one of Canada\u2019s top agricultural shows, will be running November 6 &#8211; 10 at the Edmonton EXPO Centre.<\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 farm families will be honoured at the 2019 Farmfair International BMO Farm Family Award Winners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[125,585,587,36,583,582,531,581,580,319],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208260"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208260"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208265,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208260\/revisions\/208265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northlands.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}