Consultant-Contractor Database

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Greg Adelman has been practicing agrology since 2004. Summer experience prior to 2004 included work in agricultural research as well as in retail crop supplies. Experience after 2004 included 3 years in retail agricultural sales and 6 years as a business representative with BASF Canada. In 2013 Greg started Crop Command Agronomy Ltd. which provides full service agronomy to agricultural clients. In 2014 Greg partnered with two of his clients to start a drone and remote sensing beusiness. That business specializes in on demand imagery and interpretation of aerial imagery. In 2016 Crop Commnad Agronomy started work in forensic agrology through training offered by SIA. Past experience in retail and with BASF prepared Greg for agrology consulting and forensic agrology.

Areas of Practice: Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Ms. Aitken has been a self-employed environmental consultant since the summer of 2008. She is involved in numerous consulting projects including hydrocarbon and salinity contamination at upstream oil and gas facilities in southeast SK.  These projects involve innovative, multi-disciplinary approaches to planning and project completion.  Sheena has gained a substantial understanding of contaminant behavior, its effects on the environment, and mitigative responses.  Her understanding of contaminant liability issues relative to the oil and gas industry allows her to respond in a safe, timely, and cost-effective manner.  She also manages reclamation projects.

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Meridith Ball has twenty years of oil and gas industry experience 15 of which has been with Husky Energy overseeing teams of up to 200 field and office personnel for abandonment, reclamation and remediation programs in Western Canada. Meridith has experience with oil sands developments including OSE programs as well as pipeline planning and regulatory approvals. With a Bachelors degree in Soils and Biotic Geography together with Project Management training and experience, Meridith is able to deliver results on a variety of projects from pre-development including wetland assessment and classification to site closure.

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management

Own and operate Prairie Ag Business Management. Primary services provided include Project Management/Development, Event Management, and Administration/Association Management. This includes over 5 years of experience in project & event management. Work has been focused on non-profits, boards/associations, and companies on projects throughout the prairie provinces.

Website: www.prairieagbusiness.ca

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

With 18 years of environmental consulting experience, Timothy Chidlaw has worked on environmental impact assessments, pre-disturbance assessments, ecological land classification, regulatory compliance inspections, emergency spill response, environmental site assessments, soil and groundwater remediation, site-specific risk assessment and reclamation.  Tim’s educational background includes a Bachelors degree in Geography from the University of Calgary with a specialization in soil and vegetation management, a Certificate in Environmental Technology from Mount Royal College and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from the University of Lethbridge. He has been registered as a Professional Agrologist with the Alberta Institute of Agrologists for 11 years and the B.C. Institute of Agrologists for 4 years. He has worked at sites throughout Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, Manitoba and the Northwest Territories and enjoys working as a liaison between landowners, special interest groups, regulators, and industry clientele.

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Kelly Cochrane has over 8 years of environmental consulting experience for the oil and gas sector within southeast Saskatchewan. My current areas of practice at Matrix Solutions Inc. include Acknowledgement of Reclamation (AOR) applications; detailed site assessments; vegetation/weed surveys; wildlife surveys; Phase 1, 2, & 3 environmental site assessments (ESAs); predevelopment assessments; environmental monitoring; initial spill response; landowner consultations and project management. I have an excellent understanding of workplace safety, job-site personnel, equipment management and reclamation issues that combine to offer a competent, independent client representative. I carry a Bachelor’s degree and two diplomas in the environmental field.

Matrix Solutions Inc. is a multi-service environmental consulting and engineering company providing a wide range of services such as; Environment Impact Assessments, Soil and Groundwater Remediation, Reclamation, Environmental Risk Assessments & Modelling, Liability Management, Wildlife & Vegetation Assessments, and Hydrology & Hydrotechnical Engineering.

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Environment/Conservation, Farming & Ranching, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Larry Durand was born and raised on a seed farm in southern Manitoba. Larry began providing professional agronomic services in the Humboldt area in 1998 while working with United Grain Growers. In 2001 he started his own agronomic consulting business, Field Good Agronomics Ltd. Today, FGA provides a suite of agronomic consulting services including field scouting, crop planning, pest management planning, fertility planning, and forensic agrology services. Clients include farmers, ag input manufacturing companies, insurance agencies, and law firms.

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management

• Economic development - working with national and international companies
• Ag marketing - national and international
• Project development
• Trade missions - incoming & outgoing
• Government relations
• Event management
• Organizational management

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Feasibility/Strategic/Business Planning

Consulting Services Include: Business performance analysis, succession planning, sales & marketing strategies, revenue, profitability, turn-around strategies, strategic planning, business consulting, business sustainability, growth strategies, business and/or market assessment & planning, project management, business plan creation and grant proposal writing services.

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Soil Science/Reclamation

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Banking/Equity/Finance

After many years as the managing partner in a multi-outlet farm inputs business, Mr. Evans negotiated the sale of the company. Subsequent to the sale, he established a consultancy specializing in farm business management.  The consultancy focuses on succession, expansion, finance and exit strategies for primary producers as well as small to mid-sized farm enterprises.  Mr. Evans also did some tenant assessments for farmland investors and in that capacity, has worked to facilitate drainage projects.  More recently the consultancy has been assisting with the creation of a new grain export business with a focus on exporting to the mid-East.

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Farming & Ranching, Soil Sciences/Reclamation, Feasibility/Strategic/Business Planning

He specializes in field management including nutrient planning and field scouting.

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Feasibility/Strategic/Business Planning, Soil Sciences/Reclamation, Teaching/Training/Extension

Various aspects of environmental consulting. Heavy focus on the following areas:

• oil & gas industry integration with agricultural practices
• waste management
• water resource management
• soil and water sciences
• spill response and mitigation
• ecology and site assessments
• experience with First Nations and various stakeholder engagement
• education in biochemistry and education
• experience in policy development and framework consultation

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Feasibility/Strategic/BusinessPlanning

Insight Plant Health specializes in consultation on biological product testing, development, scale-up and launch. We run a full service lab with equipment and expertise for agricultural product testing and development and plant disease identification. Insight Plant Health can also supply plant pathogen inoculum for field trials.

Areas of Practice:Agribusiness/Management

Laurie Hayes has 30 years experience managing organizations and projects, as a business owner, senior management, and contractor. She has managed more than 100 projects with budgets up to $12M and multi-location (national) teams. She is an astute financial manager, providing business development and project management expertise to support the growth of businesses, including start-up companies.

She understands and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders with diverse perspectives to ensure operational stability and sustainability or project completion. She has led strategic planning, business transitions, policy development and enterprise risk assessment for volunteer, non-profit and government agencies. She has broad expertise in plant and animal sciences in the public and private sectors.

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Dave has achieved his professional designation in the field of agrology with the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists and his Project Management Professional certification with the Project Management Institute. Dave has 11+ years of experience in environmental consulting and project management. Dave has provided project management for various impacted site clean-up projects, conducted pre-disturbance and detailed site assessments, as well as Phase I, II, and III environmental site assessments in accordance with environmental regulatory guidelines.  Dave has also consulted on numerous small- and large-scale spill response projects and problem site investigations, including Site-Specific Liability Assessments and Site-Specific Risk Assessments, with close liaison with regulating bodies within the Saskatchewan Ministry of Energy and Resources and Saskatchewan Ministry of Environment.

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Animal Sciences, Environment/Conservation, Farming & Ranching, Teaching/Training/Extension

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Science

• Insurance claims/investigations pertaining to herbicide drift, herbicide residue; seed quality; equipment malfunctions plus valuation of crop damage claims.
• Field crop scouting (season long)
• Crop agronomy, production, and management
• Soil sampling and fertility recommendations

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Farming & Ranching, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Animal Science, Economics, Environment/Conservation, Farming & Ranching, Feasibility Strategic/Business Planning, Policy Development/Program Review, Soil Sciences/Reclamation, Teaching/Training/Extension

• Rangeland conservation & management
• Sustainable rangeland systems
• Species at Risk Habitat project implementation
• Stockmanship
• Environmental consulting
• Livestock management & selection
• Seedstock selection
• Ranching systems
• Project management
• Applied research management & implementation
• Communications
• Land use planning
• First generation agricultural startup
• Extention & teaching

Areas of Practice: AgribusinessManagement, Agronomy/Plant Sciences/ ,Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness, Feasibility/Strategic/Business Planning, Policy Development/Program Review

Employed with Bayer CropScience approximately 30 years until early retirement 2011, in various capacities in marketing, sales and distribution in crop protection and seed. He was Director of Marketing Canada Cereals and Specialty Crops at time of retirement.

He brings experience in business planning, marketing and sales coaching, budgeting and product development plans. Managed various Marketing and Development Projects both large and small projects some under confidentiality agreements.

Example of larger projects included:

• STORM Seed Treater - Bayer CropScience Project (Project length approximately 2.5 years) Project covered prototype testing, focus groups, business plan development, production contracts, royalty agreements and initial product launch.
   
• XiteBio Technologies - Biological Company (Project length, contracted for a maximum of 3 years) Business and Product Development for a new biological product for use in Canola Western Canada. Responsibilities also include the establishing of retail network and demonstration trials in Western Canada for the current line of inoculants for Pulse and Soybean.

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Michael obtained an M.Sc. in Soil Science in 1997 and then worked at the University of Saskatchewan for 12 years in both Soil Science and Hydrology. Experiences as the U of S included soil survey, experimental design and implementation, installation, and maintenance of remote meteorological/hydrological monitoring stations, as well as data management, data synthesis, and report writing. Following the U of S Michael worked as a consulting company prior to setting out on his own. For the past 9 years, working as an independent consultant, Michael has provided services in soil surveys, hydrological monitoring, and meteorological station installation and maintenance.

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/PlantSciences, Environment/Conservation, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Sixteen years of reclamation/remediation experience in Alberta both in mining and in conventional oil and gas. For the past 4 years, he has been in private practice as an independent consultant. He obtained dual membership over 2 years ago and was sub-contracted to conduct a 30 Site Phase I ESA program in SE Sask, and providing provincial sign-off. He worked with the AOR application guidelines, performed DSAs across SASK and have been dispatched as an initial spill responder into the Kindersley area. In Alberta, his current scope of practice includes Phase 1 & Phase 2 reporting, preparing Site Assessments - RoO worksheets and applying for Rec Certificates. He is competent in reclamation guidelines, best practices on my lands: Special Areas, Irrigation Districts, C.F.B, Grazing Reserves, Public lands and Native Prairie-land.

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/PlantSciences

Own and operate a professional Agronomy consulting business- Parkland Agronomy. Helping growers make informed decisions through soil testing, crop scouting, herbicide recommendations and variable rate fertility management. He provides unbiased valuable science-based information to growers that help them profit on their own farms.

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Agronomy/PlantSciences, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Through his early years of employment, he worked in agronomic, marketing and organizational management positions with Federated Cooperatives, the Royal Bank, Monsanto and Green Valley Fertilizer a subsidiary company of JR International. Since founding Aurora Consulting Inc. In 1991 he has provided his consultancy services through Aurora to farmers, insurance companies, lawyers, Ag Supply and Retail businesses, government and small to medium-sized companies involved in the agricultural industry and energy sectors.

Primary Services Provided

• Forensic Agrology related to Crop yield and economic damage assessment
• Farm business strategy and plan development
• Farm Succession and Transition planning
• Farmland value and rental assessment
• Farm Business risk and financial assessment

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Organic Production/Certification, Teaching/Training/Extension

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Science, Policy Development/Program Review, Teaching/Training/Extension

Results and challenge driven professional with diverse knowledge encompassing a number of critical areas. Demonstrated ability to lead and complete projects from start to finish. Proven skills in project management, program design and evaluation, program management, extension and training, strategic planning, facilitation, team leadership, legislation and regulation development and analysis, and budget and human resource management.

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Economics, Environment/Conservation, Farming & Ranching, Feasibility/Strategic/Business Planning, Organic Production/Certification, Soil Sciences/Reclamation

Owned and operated Sustainable Agronomics L.S. Ltd. since 2010, which is an unbiased
Agricultural Consulting company focused on farm -direct delivery of Agronomic soils, plant and production economic services to both conventional and organic farm production systems, primary services include:

• Overall farm production management, sustainability, and general preventative or strategic planning,
• Fertilizer / Nutrient Use Efficiency (NUE) and Water Use Efficiency (WUE) planning and implementation,
• Soil and plant tissue analysis/classification/recommendation,
• Rotational analysis, lntegrated Pest Management (lPM) planning / monitoring / implementation,
• Chemical pesticide planning / recommendation,
• Production economics / Return On investment (ROl) and production data planning /tracking,
• Forensic Agrology consulting

Experienced a wide range of situations and scenarios, crops, pests, and worked with a variety of farm managers and industry professionals. Looking forward to the future of Agriculture in Western Canada and look forward to furthering my skill-set to address challenging scenarios and meet more of the great professionals he has been fortunate to surround myself with to tackle anything that the future holds for my clients and the Agriculture industry.

Areas of Practice: Environment/Conservation, Farming & Ranching, Organic Production/Certification

Areas of Practice: Agribusiness/Management, Environment/Conservation, Feasibility/Strategic/Business Planning, Soil Sciences/Reclamation, Teaching/Training/Extension

Tatonga Consulting provides the Agricultural industry with professional management consultants to assist owners with the development of sustainable business management strategies.  Our team provides expertise in the areas of Environmental Management, Health, Safety and Strategic Business Risk Management.  

Our clients are across western Canada where we have provided value to their operations by exploring risk within and external to the organization, and then subsequently establishing risk management strategies to protect people, assets and the environment.

Our professionals are also available to provide training seminars, customized training curriculum, online multi-media based training and digital promotional marketing materials.

Areas of Practice: Agronomy/Plant Sciences, Farming & Ranching

Independent crop consulting business providing season-long crop scouting and agronomy management. Variable rate fertilizer and seed mapping and prescriptions including RTK/EC soil maps to create our proprietary SWAT MAPs. Software synchronization of data and free apps for consultants and farmers with our CropRecords.com agronomy management system. visit website at www.croppro.ca and www.croprecords.com

Scientific research is conducted in areas such as pesticide efficacy, spray drift, tank cleanout, adjuvant performance, droplet sizing, and canopy deposition and penetration. The emphasis is on nozzle technology. Agrimetrix is available to deliver presentations and demonstrations on issues pertaining to spray application, and also offers half-day and full-day courses for sprayer operator training.

In addition, registrants are given assistance with the pesticide regulatory process in the US and Canada through calculations of buffer zones and drift mitigation label language. We also develop smartphone apps for agriculture, with an emphasis on spray application issues such as calibration, spray quality, field records, etc.