Shauna Sereda BSc

A farm girl her whole life, Shauna grew up near Mirror, Alberta. She left the farm to further her education at Augustana University, where she graduated with a B.Sc. in Biology, Honours with Distinction. Finding her university education lacking in the "field" of practicality, she spent a year at Olds College learning practical farming skills: welding, electrical work, and equipment repair. Shauna worked at various jobs to put herself through school, from Dairy Queen to the Lacombe Research Station. She cultivated many "friends" in the Stettler area as the County Weed Inspector for a number of years. At that time she farmed full time with her parents on their 1200 acre grain and 100 sow farrow to finish hog operation. Shauna was her dad's "right hand man" (she is oldest of 4 girls) and learned all the skills of the trade from him (but she welds much better!). She has spent countless hours cultivating, seeding, swathing, combining, and hauling/unloading grain, and has had many "harrowing" experiences! She had thought about pursuing a teaching career and took a few courses at the University of Lethbridge, but found it didn't suit her. Farming has always been in her blood and she is still farming. Shauna met and married a wonderful farmer and moved to his family farm in the Thorsby area and they have been farming together ever since. They have 2 grown/almost grown sons. Their eldest is graduating from the Agricultural Equipment Technician program at Olds College this summer, and their youngest is graduating from Grade 12. Shauna has been working at 20/20 Seed Labs for over 10 years. She is a certified germination analyst and recently changed positions to Client Services to better help our customers.