STEP Board of Directors

Mike Popowich

Mike grew up in Yorkton, SK and obtained a Civil Engineering degree at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon.  He was a past Director nationally at the Flax Council of Canada, served as a Director on the Yorkton Chamber of Commerce board for a number of years and served as President of the Yorkton Chamber in 2018, and still currently serves on the City of Yorkton Planning & Infrastructure Committee and as a Director at STEP (Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership) since 2018.  Mike is President and owner of Texas Tea Oil Ltd. which owns a Great Canadian Oil Change franchise in Yorkton, but spends most of his time as Vice President of TA Foods Ltd. which specializes in flax, hemp, and camelina seed processing (cleaning, milling, oil production, as well as co-packing retail packages (pouches and bottling).  TA Foods exports products around the world with regular customers in the USA, Mexico, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Columbia, Italy, Thailand, and more.  Mike will strive to effectively represent the value-added agriculture sector as well as rural export businesses in Saskatchewan.  He lives in Yorkton with his wife Lana, daughter Eden, and sons Logan and Laken.