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Emily Bromley, ON
President

Emily grew up on her family’s commercial cow-calf operation in Renfrew, Ontario where her passion for the beef industry began at a young age. Through her involvement in 4-H and the Canadian Charolais Youth Association, her love of Charolais cattle and advocating for youth in the beef industry grew. The cattle herd also grew and now includes purebred Charolais. To promote her genetics Emily has travelled all throughout Ontario and western Quebec, attending various shows. Emily attended the University of Guelph to study agriculture and has been fortunate enough to work in ag retail since 2013.   

Marc Vachon, MB
Vice-President

Marc grew up on a mixed cattle and grain operation in South-West MB. He first attended Brandon University for Mathematics and spent summers working for Manitoba Beef and Forage Initiatives, where he saw another side of agriculture and how he could fit into it. He transferred to the University of Saskatchewan graduating with an Agribusiness Degree. After graduating from university, Marc bought an adjacent yard site to the family farm. He has worked in the grain industry for the last couple of years, now as a grain marketing advisor while working alongside his parents and uncle on the home farm. The farm consists of a 300-head Black Angus commercial cow-calf operation with calves sold as yearlings in the spring. Marc is building his herd alongside the main operation. 
Marc is grateful for the experience that he can bring back from his off-farm roles, both the transfer of knowledge into the family farm and from the grain industry into the beef industry. Marc is passionate about the beef industry and seeing it thrive alongside its counterparts in Canadian agriculture. Marc is looking forward to gaining experience in policy and understanding how to advocate for the beef industry at a higher level. After one year on the Council, he has seen the value of a cross-country network of beef producers and how it creates new ideas. 

​Scott Gerbrandt, SK
Past President

Scott Gerbrandt was raised on a farm near Swift Current, SK. He obtained an Agriculture and Bioresource Engineering degree (with Great Distinction) from the U of S in 2010 and has been working as a design engineer in the ag machine industry since then. In 2015, Scott and his wife, Robyn, moved back to Swift Current to become more involved on Scott’s grandparents’ farm, which was a small beef and hay operation. 
 
Scott has enjoyed learning about the cow-calf sector and has worked on increasing their herd over the past few years. He focuses on keeping up with best practices from research results, record keeping, business management and trying to improve grazing techniques to increase production on the land they manage.  He is proud of some of the changes implemented on their operation including eliminating confined feeding in the cow herd through the use of corn grazing, bale grazing and calving on pasture, while simultaneously increasing their herd size.  He is also proud to have the opportunity to share daily chores on their Verified Beef Production Plus (VBP+) operation with four active generations. 
 
Scott is a Canadian Cattle Young Leaders 2020 graduate and has filled the roles of vice president ('22-'23) and President ('23-'24) of the youth council. 

Brayden Schmidt
Alberta delegate

Brayden was born and raised in Lumsden, SK and now resides near Didsbury, AB with his wife Andie and their son Traig. Brayden graduated from Olds College with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Agribusiness degree and now works for Bullseye Feeds as a Beef Nutrition Consultant. Brayden also works alongside Andie's family at their farming operation Westway Farms Ltd; an operation which consists of Simmental and Angus purebred and commercial cow/calf pairs, a small feed yard, and pedigree grain seed production. Brayden enjoys volunteering his time towards 4H and junior livestock programs, giving back to programs that he grew up in. When not surrounded by agriculture Brayden enjoys playing golf, hockey, curling and skiing.

Rylonn Elliot
​BC delegate

danika mayer, on
Member at Large

 

Judson Christopherson
Saskatchewan delegate

Judson is a third-generation cow-calf producer from Yellow Grass, Saskatchewan, managing 1100 commercial angus cattle and backgrounding heifers alongside his father and grandfather. Judson joined the Youth Council in 2024, serving as the Saskatchewan representative. 

Having developed a passion for agriculture at a young age Judson hopes to foster change for the cattle agriculture industry by bridging gaps between policymakers, producers, and academia while operating his family’s operation.  ​

Despite an unwavering desire to be a cow-calf producer Judson has pursued post-secondary education to better understand how policy impacts producers. Having completed a B.Sc. in Agribusiness and M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics at the University of Saskatchewan, he hopes to bring this knowledge to the council while deepening his understanding of beef production nationally. 

connor english, mb
member at large

Connor is a 5th generation cattle farmer from Bradwardine MB where he farms/ranches along side his parents, wife Kyla and son Colter.  

After graduating from Lakeland College in 2019 with a diploma in Animal Sciences he has developed a great amount of interest in the soil health and regenerative ag space. This led him to work at South Glanton Farms, North of Brandon MB where he broadened his knowledge in the adaptive multi paddock grazing space and saw the benefits that a mixed livestock and grain farm can have.  
In the spring of 2022 he returned home to the family farm to work along side his parents 

They currently operate a diverse cow calf, backgrounding and small finishing enterprise on the farm. They run their cows on majority tame pastures from early May until the end of October. During this time they have been calving their cows in a short period of time before starting them into their intensive grazing system. They strive to increase production and profitability while pushing their system to become more resilient year after year and not so reliant on things that they don’t have control over. Their winter grazing/ feeding system seems to be always changing which is helping them succeed regardless of weather or market events. Instead of having 1 sole form of winter feeding, they see value in utilizing 5 or 6 different ways to winter cows and or calves in their environment.  

In the spring of 2024, Connor had the opportunity to take a position with Covers & Co as the Manitoba Territory Manager. Since starting into this new role he has been very driven to continue to find ways to connect farmers back to their farms soil health to help increase farms profitability and longevity.  
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He looks forward to serving as a Member at Large for the Canadian Cattle Youth Council moving forward! 
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​Quebec Delegate

The Quebec Delegate position is currently being filled. 

Atlantic delegate

The Atlantic Delegate position is currently being filled. 

Adeleen Bolduc
Canadian Beef cattle check-off agency: youth member

Adeleen is a 5th generation Alberta Rancher alongside her husband, Mat, and three kids at Cudlobe Angus West near Stavely, Alberta. They raise purebred black angus cattle with her father-in-law, Dave, at the base of the foothills. Bolduc also runs commercial angus cows and calves with her mom in Special Areas, near Cereal, Alberta. The Bolducs use genetic selection to breed cattle that are high performing, high carcass quality cattle that have functional longevity in adverse environments. 
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Adeleen grew up on her family's mixed farm/feedlot operation in Central Alberta where she honed her stockmanship skills and developed an eye and love for cattle. Her mom and grandma were both heavily involved in their respective operations, and Bolduc is proud to be the 3rd generation of women in her family who ranch. Feeder cattle and her oilfield maintenance job funded Adeleen's post secondary education. She moved to her husband's family operation in 2012 and has found her place working outside as well as managing the office for the ranch in addition to her own branded beef program, Cudlobe Angus West AAA+ Beef. Bolduc's goals for her CYL Mentorship center around finding and harnessing new opportunities in the industry related to beef marketing. She excels in creating new efficiencies for her family's ranches, embracing new technology, and places a lot of value on self-evaluation and constant improvement.