Once again, Mac Angus Farms and Ranch Covey Hill are teaming up to offer you a first-class event here at home in Havelock, Quebec.

Following our first Hillspride Sale last February, we thought about offering you an educative and interesting field day, on Saturday September 17^th. We are specifically inviting all beef industry stakeholders, whether you are beef breeders, technical advisors, Juniors, or other industry partners.

In addition to touring our pastures and inspecting our Angus cattle both at the Ranch Covey Hill and Mac Angus Farms, our guest speakers will be offering you three instructive presentations. We are making every effort to offer you a day to remember, while serious matters would allow you to socialize with friends, colleagues, and partners.

In conjunction to the conference program, all Juniors will be invited to a short beef cattle clinic organized by our children. We want to share some passion about beef cattle with our youth through various demonstration: cattle preparation, showmanship, and cattle judging.

This special day will be wrapped up with good foods, relaxed atmosphere, and music!

DMV Genetiq services

Jonathan Lehouiller

Jonathan has earned his diploma in veterinary medicine from the University of Montreal in 2013. Born and raised in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue, he started his career in that same region in doing breeding soundness evaluation of beef bulls.

In 2015, he decided to specialize his veterinary practice in the field of advanced reproduction techniques both of bulls and breeding females, in doing embryo collections as well as ova collection and in-vitro fertilization with the Centre-du-Québec veterinary clinic. Starting in 2016, he offered to private farms an on-farm semen freezing service.

In 2018, to develop the in-vitro division even further, to lower costs and to be more competitive, he established an in-vitro laboratory within the clinic, which was only the second one in Canada. Beside this, he officially opened a semen collection facility in 2019, known as DMV Génétiq Services.

Jonathan is very active, giving numerous training sessions on breeding soundness evaluation of bulls, to producers as well as colleague veterinaries.

Over the last two years, he has been acting as vice-president of the Canadian Embryo Transfer Association.   

Belisle 

Camélia Marchand

Bachelor of science in agronomy – animal science, graduated from Laval University in 2020. Currently completing a master’s degree in animal science, on trace mineral nutrition of dairy cows, in collaboration with Laval University and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (Lennoxville).  Newly hired as a junior advisor with Bélisle Solution & Nutrition, in the southwest part of Quebec.  

Caroline Matteau

Graduated in 2016 in agronomy at the McGill University (Macdonald College), with a specialization in agri-environmental and plant science, she is currently managing the forage seed division at Belisle. Further to earning her master’s degree in 2018, which was on the companionship with the Sudan grass, she joined the Belisle team the same year as a research assistant. During the first three years, she leads numerous projects on plant and animal productions. Over the last few years, she was an adjunct teacher to the technical program at Macdonald College and she has been traveling all over Quebec, helping dairy producers as an advisor on all best practices regarding forage production.

Certified angus beef

Martin Lemoyne

A friend of chefs, beef producers and food distributors for 18 years, Martin started his career at Canada Packers, in the production and sales, before moving on to sales to restaurants.

Then, he joined Provigo, and next Loblaw, as a category manager where he was overseeing proteins for Provigo, Loeb, Maxi, and Loblaw.

Martin pursued his passion of cheese as an account manager with Agropur.

In 2004, he moved on to join Canada Beef for 13 years. Today, he is the Canadian National Manager of the Certified Angus Beef ^® brand.

Kara Lee

As Director, Producer Engagement, Kara leads initiatives that provide education for cattlemen who want to improve their bottom line by using the best genetics and management practices. Raised on a commercial Angus operation, Kara serves as a connection point between Certified Angus Beef ^® brand partners and the ranch by leading on-farm ranch days.