Adrien Pitre

Adrien Pitre is a grain, forestry and fodder producer in the Matapédia Valley, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. He is the third generation of farmers in his family. With his partner, Solange Lavoie, he bought his father’s dairy business in 1986, which he turned into a grain (50 hectares), forage (65 hectares), and forestry (200 hectares) farm in 2010.

Adrien holds a diploma in farm business management from Cégep Matane. Since 2003, he has served on the Board of Directors of La Coop Matapédienne, now Unoria Coopérative since the merger of La Coop Purdel and Agriscar in November 2022. He is a founding member of CUMA Matapédia, over which he presided from 1993 to 2001, as well as of a solidarity cooperative in Albertville. He was also a founding member of the Syndicat de gestion de la Matapédia, and was a municipal councillor from 1990 to 1995.