The Rural Voice, 1991-01, Page 41NEWS
FORMER AG
MIINISTER DIES
William A. Stewart, considered to be
the father of supply management in
Canada, died in London on December 8,
1990.
While he was Ontario's Minister of
Agriculture and Food from 1961 to 1975
Stewart is credited with setting up the
supply management marketing system,
beginning with the dairy industry, when
he introduced the Milk Act in 1965.
Elected MPP in 1957, he served
until a heart attack forced him to retire in
1975. An active community worker, he
was a founding director and president of
the Middlesex Federation of
Agriculture.
Awarded an honorary doctor of laws
degree from the University of Western
Ontario in 1968, he was appointed
chancellor of the University of Guelph
in 1983 and inducted into the Canadian
Agriculture Hall of Fame in 1989.0
NEW JOHN DEERE
DEALERSHIP
Huron Tractor Ltd. recently
announced the sale of the Walkerton
dealership to Wayne and Barb
O'Rourke and Jim and Dianne Snyder.
O'Rourke, originally from the
Exeter area, worked at Huron Tractor
there for 20 years, first in service, then
sales, prior to assuming the manager's
position at Walkerton when that branch
opened in 1978.
Snyder, originally from a cash -crop
operation in Brampton, moved to the
Owen Sound area in 1985, where he
established a purebred beef enterprise
while working briefly in financial
investments then the farm supply sector.
He joined Huron Tractor earlier this
year.
The new dealership, now Bruce
Tractor and Lawn Care Ltd., will offer a
full line of John Deere equipment at the
same location west of Walkerton as the
former Huron Tractor dealership.
Wayne O'Rourke will assume the
presidency of the company; Barb as
secretary, and Snyder, as director of the
company, joins Harley Zechuissen in
sales.0
NEW OFA PRESIDENT VISITS LAMBTON
In one of his first duties as newly elected president of the Ontario Federation of
Agriculture, Roger George spent a day recently meeting producers and members in
Lambton County. Here he explains the new proposed national stabilization programs
for grains and oil seeds to a meeting in Alvinston. "We need predictability and
forward planning in this business," said George, as he described the Gross Revenue
Insurance Plan (GRIP) and Net Income Stabilization Account (NISA). George
urged farmers to ask their crop insurance agents about the two programs for 1991.0
Hill AND Hill
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FOR YOUR
1991 PLANTING NEED
CaII us about:
• Maple Glen - 2600 hu . • OAC Musca - 2750 hu
• OAC Scorpio - 2600 hu • Maple Donovan - 2750 hu
• First Line Bravor - 2650 hu • OAC Dorado - 2850 hu
• Histick Peat Inoculant
Custom Seed Cleaning
Screened bagged corn
for corn stoves available
Contact: Pete Rowntree
HILL & HILL FARMS 233-3218
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