Agriculture Development Corporation (ADC) creates turnkey investments in Saskatchewan farmland that generate semi-annual income, and significant capital gains potential for investors.

Management Team

• Doug Emsley, President

  Mr. Doug Emsley is President of ADC and Palliser Farmland Management Corp., a related company which supplies farmland management services. Doug has a wide array of business and professional experience in the Province of Saskatchewan. He is the President of Emsley & Associates (2002) Inc., which operates an executive business centre in downtown Regina, President of Security Resource Group Inc. (an IT security consulting firm), and Sabre West Oil & Gas Ltd. (an oil & gas company). A successful entrepreneur, he previously built Vision Security & Investigations Inc. into the largest security firm in Western Canada, before selling the company to Securitas Canada Limited.

  Mr. Emsley is a director of the Bank of Canada and a trustee of Royal Utilities Income Fund (RU.UN-T), a TSX listed income trust involved in the mining of thermal coal in western Canada, where he also serves as Chair of the Audit Committee. Mr. Emsley has an MBA from York University in Toronto, and is a director of the Institute for Research in Public Policy.

• Brad Farquhar, Vice-President

  Mr. Farquhar is Vice-President of ADC and Palliser Farmland Management, and President of Farquhar & Associates Consulting, an international management and governance consulting firm. Mr. Farquhar is a trained financial planner and has completed the Canadian Securities Course of the Canadian Securities Institute. He received a Master of Public Administration degree in Electoral Governance from Griffith University in Australia, studied political science at Carleton University, and completed a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts at Providence College. He has been engaged as an international consultant on matters related to the conduct of elections in Central Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean. He is also a part-time faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Regina. Mr. Farquhar previously served as Executive Director of the Saskatchewan Party (a political party now forming the government in Saskatchewan), and as Executive Assistant to the Leader of the Opposition in Saskatchewan.

  Mr. Farquhar is a director of the Regina & District Chamber of Commerce and Greenfield Carbon Offsetters Inc., a carbon sequestration company.

Field Personnel

• Murray Gogel

  Murray Gogel is Senior Farmland Manager of Palliser Farmland Management Corp., and previously farmed in the Regina area for 25 years. At its peak, Gogel Farms Inc., a farming company that he operated with a partner, operated 7,955 seeded acres of farmland, dealing with as many at 17 different landlords at the same time. Mr. Gogel’s farm was an early adopter of many new farming practices and technologies, including minimum tillage practices and price hedging with futures contracts. Mr. Gogel was also active in the custom chemical application and custom farming business. Off the farm, Mr. Gogel has served as a combine consultant to Markusson New Holland, a large Regina-based equipment distributor, as well as a farm advisor for the Saskatchewan Department of Agriculture & Food and the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration, a branch of Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada. Mr. Gogel is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan with a Diploma in Agriculture. He has been a director of Full Gospel Bible College in Eston, Saskatchewan, where he also served as Chairman of the Board, and a director of CanCom Group of Companies, an international grain marketer and seed processor with over $100 million in sales.

• Allan McDougald, P Ag, CAC

  Allan McDougald is an agrologist with 35+ years of experience in agri-business and farming in western Canada. Since 1998, he has operated as a self-employed Professional Agrologist and Certified Agriculture Consultant on farm and agri-business projects. In addition, he served for many years as the Executive Director of the Independent Dealer Entrepreneurial Association (www.independentdealers.com) in Manitoba, Alberta, and Saskatchewan, has been a Field Person with the Saskatchewan Crop Insurance Corporation, was a director of a joint venture of Ceres/MLCT Fertilizers Inc., and a marketer of seed varieties across the prairie provinces. Previously, Allan was General Manager of a $45 million, twelve branch farm supply retail operation in Central Saskatchewan, a Sales Supervisor with Agrium, and Canadian Sales Manager for an agricultural equipment manufacturer. He also continues to own and operate a grain farm in west-central Saskatchewan. Allan brings with him extensive experience and relationships across Saskatchewan that add significant value to the activities of Palliser Farmland Management as a manager of Saskatchewan farmland.

• Lorence Peterson, P Ag

  Lorence Peterson manages farmland and tenant relationships for Palliser Farmland Management Corp. After growing up on a purebred Hereford cattle and grain farm in southern Saskatchewan, Lorence graduated from the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan. He went on to gain a wide array of experience in agriculture across the province as an Agriculture Representative with Saskatchewan’s Department of Agriculture in Estevan, Shellbrook, and Swift Current prior to more than twenty years with the Royal Bank Agricultural Services Branch in Regina and Saskatoon. After retiring from the bank, Lorence was the Executive Director of the Western Grains Research Foundation for eight years. He has a long involvement with 4-H and is currently Treasurer of the Saskatchewan 4-H Foundation as well as a member of the Admissions Committee of the Saskatchewan Institute of Agrologists. Lorence lives in Saskatoon.