A fierce advocate for the industry and a proud Agro, Erin is passionate about all things agriculture. Hailing from small town Langdon, Alberta, she’s currently a second year at the University of Saskatchewan studying for her B.Sc. in Agriculture majoring in Agronomy. Her agricultural experience is extensive and continues to grow. Not only has she worked on the farm, but she’s held titles such as President of her beef and multi 4-H club, Seasonal Agronomist at Paterson Grain, Beef Ambassador for the Calgary Stampede Cattle Trail, and certified Cow/Calf and Field Crop Technician through the Green Certificate Program via the Government of Alberta. She’s a member of the Agriculture Student’s Association at the U of S, and is the co-president of the University of Saskatchewan Range Team, which focuses on rangeland management and sustainability from a producer perspective.

Erin is excited to be a member of the conservative community, and desires to be a voice for agriculture within it. Agriculture employs so many Canadians as well as feeds so many more, and the conservative parties at all levels have shown her they are the most supportive. As a woman in an industry that is majority male-dominated, she feels that the conservative community helps empower her and other women to get involved and make real, practical change.

Recently Erin attended Equal Voice’s Daughters of the Vote National Conference as a representative of the Bow River federal riding. There she was able to meet and interact with many other passionate women, influential political figures, and new friends, who all contributed to refining her political stance in the conservative community. She learned an unbelievable amount and fueled her fire for utilizing and analyzing the effect of policy on industry, economy, and society.

Some of Erin’s biggest areas of interest are global food security, implementing sustainable practices on large-scale farming operations, agriculture education, and the effects of media portrayal and government policies on the industry and markets. She aspires to work towards realistic solutions for the issue of feeding nine billion people by 2050. She wants to work with producers, consumers, policy makers, and businesses alike to increase public understanding of the importance of food production and how much it affects everyone at the local, provincial, national, and global level, all while empowering her fellow fierce women in agriculture to raise their voices.