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Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario
7660 Mill Rd., RR 4 Guelph, ON N1H 6J1
Voice: (519) 837-1620 Fax: (519) 824-1835
Email: cffomail@christianfarmers.org
Web: www.christianfarmers.org
Our Leadership Team for 2007
John Kikkert
Henry Stevens
Gerald Poechman
Returning as President is John Kikkert, a chicken and turkey .producer from Smithville. In addition to his
activities on the farm, Kikkert is chairman of the Foundation of Niagara Christian Schools and a director on the
Ontario Turkey Producers Marketing Board, where he is the Ontario Farm Animal Council representative.
Returning as Vice -President is Henry Stevens a broiler producer from Palmerston. He is also the President of
the Wellington Christian Farmers Association, chair of CFFO's Stewardship and Policy West Committee, chair
of CFFO's Supply Management Committee and CFFO's representative to AGCare. A new Vice -President,
Gerald Poechman, is an egg, beef and cash -crop farmer from Hanover. He graduated from Centralia with an
Agricultural Diploma and is also an Alumnus of the Advanced Agricultural Leadership Program - Class III
(1989-1991). His commitment to the agricultural and rural community extends beyond CFFO and has
included active involvement in other organizations, including a charter membership in the Queen's Bush Rural
Ministries.
Rick DeGraaf
Glen Duff
Lorne Small Ted Van Den Hurk
John Van D}'k
Rick DeGraaf is a pullet and sheep producer from near Cambridge. In addition to past experience in plant
breeding and development work, DeGraaf also is the Stewardship Education Coordinator 'for Christian
Stewardship Services. Glen Duff is a hay and sheep producer from Rockwood. A recipient of the Governor
General's commemorative 125th anniversary medal, Duff also previously worked for Ciba-Geigy Canada Ltd.,
responsible for Government Relations, Strategic Planning and Public Affairs. Lorne Small is a sheep farmer
from near Kenilworth. He also serves on the Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency, worked for several years as a
provincial agricultural representative, and was the first appointed General Manager of the Ontario Dairy Herd
Improvement Corp., when it was privatized. Ted Van Den Hurk is a broiler and turkey broiler producer from
, near Stayner. In addition to serving on committees of the chicken and turkey boards, Van Den Hurk is a local
coordinator of the Good Food Box Program and had served in Tanzania as an educator/missionary. John Van
Dyk is a dairy farmer from near Tavistock. An active participant in the CFFO's supply management
committee, Van Dyk also serves on the Perth County Milk Committee of Dairy Farmers Ontario and as Vice -
President of the Oxford Milkway Transport Co-op.
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