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Alberta Beef Producers Confirms July 2026 Exit from Canadian Cattle Association

The group said transparency gaps drove its decision after governance reform proposals were ignored

Alberta Beef Producers said its board of directors' decision to withdraw from the Canadian Cattle Association, to take effect July 1, 2026, follows "extensive deliberation" and a strategic review.
Alberta Beef Producers is reassuring ranchers that impact to its some 18,000 producers provincewide will be minimal following a decision to withdraw membership from the Canadian Cattle Association.--NEWS FILE PHOTO

Overview

  • Alberta Beef Producers will formally withdraw from the Canadian Cattle Association on July 1, 2026, while fulfilling all financial obligations through June 30 of that year.
  • Chair Doug Roxburgh cited long-standing concerns over governance, fiscal transparency and board representation, including a freeze that limits Alberta to seven of 24 CCA seats despite funding over half its budget.
  • ABP outlined specific reform requests—such as an independent governance review and revised funding formula—but said it saw no meaningful progress from the CCA.
  • The Canadian Cattle Association, taken by surprise, has kept an interim funding agreement with ABP and plans to address Alberta’s representation at its October semi-annual meeting.
  • ABP assured its roughly 18,000 Alberta producers that the withdrawal will not affect funding to the Beef Cattle Research Council, Canada Beef or the Canadian Beef Cattle Check-Off Agency.