{"id":623,"date":"2017-12-01T23:23:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emergingag.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2017-12-01T23:23:05","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T23:23:05","slug":"remarks-on-the-occasion-of-robynne-anderson-s-acceptance-into-the-canadian-agricultural-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergingag.com\/fr\/remarks-on-the-occasion-of-robynne-anderson-s-acceptance-into-the-canadian-agricultural-hall-of-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarks on the Occasion of Robynne Anderson\u2019s Acceptance into The Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cOur Time has Come!\u201d<\/p>\n

It is an amazing night to have three women inducted into the Canadian Agricultural Hall of Fame on the same evening, moving us from 8 women and 210 men.\u00a0 Now if we just keep doing this for the next 70 years, we\u2019ll be all caught up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

But seriously, it is a special moment and a true honour to be joining Jean and Patty tonight.\u00a0 Women have long been a backbone of the agriculture sector.\u00a0 With time and patience, we are seeing more women moving into leadership roles.\u00a0 At the same time, it is also a conscious choice and I hope every one of us in this room will use tonight as a reminder that we need to turn to women and ask them to join the boards, the committees, and the leadership roles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Herb called me to say I was being inducted and I dropped the suitcase I was putting in the overhead bin of the plane I was boarding because I was sure I had misheard.\u00a0 Certainly my nominators are all very stealthy people as I didn\u2019t have a clue I was being nominated. Herb went on to say that the three of us hadn\u2019t been picked because we were women but because we were the best candidates \u2013 a sentiment to which we can all applaud and a good reminder that there are many fantastic women leaders who should be nominated each year.\u00a0 We just have to consciously choose to add them to a list of Nominees; and as the Chair of the Association; or a member of a Corporate Board.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One of the things I found most moving afterward was to realize that people had considered me a mentor for women in agriculture.\u00a0 In fact, it is a great pleasure tonight to have women \u2013 and men – who have been part of the teams I have built here.\u00a0 So I would like the past and current Issues Inkers and Emerging aggies to stand.\u00a0 It is these young people who represent the future of agriculture and I am so proud of each and every one of you and the growing roles you are playing in agriculture.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Indeed, I have much to be thankful for, including the faith that the seed industry showed in me as a young woman in her 20\u2019s.\u00a0 At every turn, they were willing to let me be part of their tremendous journey to provide the seed that is the\u00a0 foundation of crop development.\u00a0 The fact, that so many other sectors were also so kind is really a gift.\u00a0 The fact is, I have served at your pleasure \u2013 and everyone from inputs, to dairy, to pulses to grain trade, and beyond has loaned to me their trust and the power of their voice.\u00a0 My success is only the ability to bring you together and to foster operating environment\u2019s in which you can produce the world\u2019s food, fibre and fuel.\u00a0 You do all the hard work.<\/p>\n

Your kindness has allowed my world to get so much bigger, and to work with farmers all around the globe and in every aspect of the agri-food value chain.\u00a0 What has struck me most is that agriculture is more valuable than ever before but faces attacks in an unprecedented manner.\u00a0 I have learned we all share more in common than we have apart.\u00a0 The rancher\u2019s fences and the farmer\u2019s field may make for some chat across the barbed wire, but as we hear people disrespecting the way we grow crops, raise meat and steward our land, let\u2019s remember we are a community that needs each other.\u00a0 We do great work and we need to share it.\u00a0 \u201cWe need to celebrate; not denigrate.\u201d\u00a0 Tell the world what Canadian agriculture is doing well and keeping changing to do it even better.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And in a final note, I could not leave the stage without thanking Brenda Trask for her incredible work to organise tonight, to the Board of the Hall, to my mentors who have flown so far and of course to my family including my aunts, uncles and cousins.\u00a0 \u00a0Chris, Kelly, Calem, Kieran and Craig \u2013 no one could be so lucky to have a family dinner table where science and farming are given their due on a nightly basis and in the extraordinary work you do in science.\u00a0 And to my dad, Bob, who taught me that farming is the noblest profession by being the most noble man I know and who gave me this passion for agriculture.\u00a0 And of course, to my Mom Joan, who was a brilliant leader, a tremendous teacher, and a woman who showed me how to build a community by valuing everyone in it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Again, I am so proud and thankful to you all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Learn\u00a0more from CAAR – “CAAR Alumnus Inducted into Ag Hall of Fame<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Learn more from the Canadian Biomass Magazine – “Bioenterprise board member makes agricultural hall of fame<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Listen to Robynne Anderson’s interview with RealAg Radio “Surprising production, blockchain tech and the Canadian Hall of Fame<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Learn more from the Manitoba Co-operator “Canadian Hall of Fame inducts three<\/a>“<\/p>\n

Robynne Anderson the President of Emerging ag talks with Shawn Brook at the CSTA Semi Annual Meeting held in Calgary, Alberta from November 26-28, 2017.<\/p>\n