Feb 14, 2023New chair to be named at NPGA winter meetings
The Northland Potato Growers Association’s (NPGA) winter meetings will be highlighted by the naming of its new chair as well as the recipients of a pair of service awards.
At a Feb. 21 banquet in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Peter Imle, a certified potato seed grower from Pine Lake Wild Rice Farm in Minnesota, will become the new NPGA chair. Imle replaces David Fedje from Hoople, North Dakota.
Mike Oosterwijk, field supervisor for the North Dakota Certified Potato Seed Program, will receive the Industry Meritorious Service Award. Oosterwijk has worked for the North Dakota Certified Potato Seed for more than 40 years.
The Grower Meritorious Service Award will be presented to Brian Vculek from Crete, North Dakota. The Vculek family has been raising potatoes since 1989 and have grown potatoes for all four sectors: fresh, frozen processing, seed and chip. The family currently concentrates on process and seed potatoes.
Vculek had a leadership role in bringing the Cavendish Farms plant to Jamestown, North Dakota, and has been active in many agricultural and civic organizations.
NPGA growers can attend the banquet, to be held at the Alerus Center in Grand Forks, at no cost.
— Northland Potato Growers Association
