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Dec 2008
Press Release - "Innovation Sensation."
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May 2008
Press Release - "Ranchers
Mobility opens door to new traceability solutuions."
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Fall 2007 -
Food for Thought Magazine- "Farm Families Go High Tech"
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23-Aug-07 -
Western Producer - "Feedlot Software Company Named Ag Sector
Innovator"
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01-July-07
- Alberta Venture Magazine - "50 Most Influential People"
- In 1986 Yvonne Tollens and her husband, Ralph, founded
ComputerAid Professional Services Ltd. in Okotoks to help
friends and family in the cattle industry computerize their
livestock management. More...
Press
Release - "Local Feedlots Instrumental in the
Development of Innovative Business Solutions" -
Yvonne Tollens
, co-owner of, ComputerAid Professional Service Ltd has been
chosen as one of Alberta Venture’s 50 most influential people
for 2007. Yvonne has spent the last twenty years working
with feedlots, backgrounders, stockers and ranchers to help them
manage their data, maximize their profits and to make
transitions as the industry changes. More...
June/July
2007 - Canadian Cattlemen - "Free Cow Calf Software"
- ComputerAid Professional Services Ltd. Of Okotoks, Alta., is
offering cow-calf producers a free web-based software program
and database service called Rancher’s Advantage. More...
May
- 2007 - CBC - "Calgary EyeOpener Small Business
Roundtable" - Twice a month feature that Yvonne
participates in discussing small business. More...
24-May-07 – Farm Focus of Atlantic Canada
– “People Who Have Made it in Agriculture Have Good Guts –
Tollens” By Glenn Cheater – In the history of Canadian
agriculture, few have a lineage as storied as
Yvonne Tollens
. Great grandfather Joseph Guichon founded the legendary Guichon
Cattle Company in B.C.’s
Nicola
Valley
in the 1880s, and did unheard-of things such as importing
Hereford
cattle all the way from
Quebec
to breed a superior herd. Grandfather LawrenceFeed won national fame
with his unorthodox notions (such as that rehabilitating
overgrazed pasture made business sense), and father Gerard was
such a successful cattleman he earned an Order of Canada. More...
05-Mar-07 – The Alberta Express –
“Rancher Bullish on Cattle Software” By Wendy Dudley –
Yvonne Tollens
comes from a long line of ranchers and innovations. And now, as
co-founder of ComputerAid Professional Services, she is turning her own ideas into winning inventions.
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19-Feb-07 – Canadian Achievers – “She Tracks Cattle All
Around the World” By Dick Drew - When I asked
Yvonne Tollens
what her advice is to young people she replied "Dick my
advice is simple, do work that you are passionate about because
you will be living and breathing it. Do some planning, get out
and get at it. Then review your success, modify the plan, and
get back at it. Dream big, be brave and have fun" Once
you read of her achievements you will know that she followed her
own advice. More...
02-Jan-07 –
Vancouver
Sun – “Bluetooth Wands Get Cattlemen off the Paper
Trail”– By Gillian Shaw CanWest New Service –
Yvonne Tollens
first came up with the idea of using technology to keep track of
cattle when she was trying to help on her family’s ranch in
the B.C. Interior’s Nicola Valley, near Merritt.
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