Ryan Barrett

Young Alumni Achievement 2022
Ryan Barrett (Class of ’02)

Ryan Barrett is the Research & Agronomy Specialist with the Prince Edward Island Potato Board in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. In this role, he coordinates local and national research projects with a number of different partners as well as conducting on-farm research trials with a number of PEI potato growers.

Ryan graduated with a B.Sc. (Agr) from the Dalhousie Faculty of Agriculture in 2002 and an M.Sc. from the University of Guelph in 2004. He has worked with the PEI Potato Board since 2012 after previously working in the purebred dairy cattle industry. He continues to be involved in his family’s dairy farm in Belmont Lot 16, breeding registered Milking Shorthorns. Ryan also serves as Secretary-Manager of the Canadian Milking Shorthorn Society.

Ryan is a Professional Agrologist and serves as the Vice President of the PEI Institute of Agrologists. He is also a Certified Crop Advisor for the Atlantic Provinces and serves on the Board of Directors for the Potato Association of America, the Prince Edward Island 4-H Council, and the Eastern Canadian Oilseeds Development Association (ECODA).