A well-respected producer from the Ste. Rose is being honoured by the Manitoba Forage Growers Association.

Shauna Breault, along with former MFGA board chair Lawrence Knockaert, a dairy farmer from Bruxelles, was announced as the organization’s 2024 Wall of Fame inductees during the MFGA’s seventh annual regenerative agriculture conference, last week.

Breault, a regenerative agriculture rancher from Toutes Aides, was an integral voice in forage and lease matters on Manitoba’s Crown agricultural landsas part of the MFGA board before leaving in 2023.

“I have had the privilege of sitting on the MFGA board with Lawrence and Shauna, both who have contributed above and beyond to our MFGA organization,” said Mike Duguid, MFGA chair. 

“Shauna was a key board member on the MFGA board. Consistently, her thoughts on important matters were always in line with where we needed to go, and often we did. Shauna, husband Clayton and their family, are leaders on regen ag at their large ranch operation, including operating on Crown lands leases north of Ste. Rose. Shauna’s leadership on Crown lands both as a leaseholder and as MFGA’s lead on the file led to many meaningful, solutions-focused conversations with ministers and senior leaders at Manitoba Agriculture that, to this day, continue to showcase the importance and connectivity of the MFGA and including our voices at the table in key discussions.”

Breault is being inducted in the Agriculture Leadership/Government Relations category while Knockaer will join in the area of Organizational Leadership.

The 2024 recipients bring the number of MFGA Wall of Fame honourees to 12 over four years.

The MFGA Wall of Fame resides on MFGA.net.

Duguid said the nominations were collected in conversations and at board meetings and the elected 2024 recipients were unanimously approved by MFGA board members during meetings leading up to the conference. He added a main principle of the induction process is that the inductees cannot be current board members or staff members.