The Rural Voice, 1998-06, Page 78People
OAC honours volunteer Victor Roland
The Ontario Agricultural
College at the University of
Guelph recently honoured a
Huron County man among three
people receiving volunteer
recognition awards.
Victor Roland, according to
OAC Dean Rob McLaughlin, has
many and varied interests. He and
his wife Margaret operate a farm
between Gorrie and Harriston and
organize time so that he can take
part in many off -farm activities.
For 10 years he has been a
director on the Ontario Soil and
Crop Improvement Association,
representing Huron, Perth and
Waterloo counties, and served as
president in 1995. That year he
led the OSCIA in delivery of the
Environmental Farm Plan II and
established the unqualified
education grant for local
associations. Roland also pushed
the association to become
involved in Canada's Outdoor
Farm Show in the belief that the
field demonstration aspect would
showcase new technology to
Ontario farmers. He even assisted
in planting the demonstration
plots for the association and the
companies involved.
Roland suggested that OSCIA
Briefings be inserted in Farm and
Country magazine as a way to
improve communications between
the association and Ontario
farmers.
He has been active in the
committee working to revitalize
the Ontario Farm Museum at
Milton.
At the local level, Roland was a
driving force in the formation of
the Huron -Perth Woodlot and
Sawmill Operators' Association
which promotes proper
management of farm woodlots.
He is a member of the committee
organizing the Ontario Farm
Woodlot Expo and the provincial
Agro -Forestry Conference.
Roland is a member of the
Ontario Forage Council and
helping to revise the guidelines
for the annual Forage Masters
competition.0
Robert Downham president of ORFEDA
Robert (Bob) Downham of Stratford was recently elected president of the
Ontario Retail Farm Equipment Dealers Association (ORFEDA). His wife Jan
was in charge of the ladies program at the convention, attended by 95 women.
The couple succeed Don and Wanda Richards of Stouffville, as head of the
organization. Western Ontario representatives on the ORFEDA board of
directors include Lloyd Watson, Mount Forest; Jerry Martens, Granton; Wayne
Stoltz, Listowel and Cliff Otterbein, New Dundee.
Downham is president of D&S Downham Equipment Ltd. The company is
headquartered in a former community school, built in 1843. The school house
was purchased in 1976 by Cecil Downham and Henry Skinner, founders of
D&S Downham Equipment Ltd.
Bob, son of Cecil, bought the Massey -Ferguson dealership in 1986, expanding
to three locations in Stratford, Innerkip and Brunner. 0
Klingenberg named to OFAC board
Gerry Klingenberg of Gorrie has been named to the board of the Ontario
Farm Animal Council (OFAC) representing the Ontario Pork Producers
Marketing Board.
Mike Cooper of Grober Delft Blue Group was re-elected chairman. Bruce
Christie of Shur -Gain is vice chairman and Bruce Coukell of Dairy Farmers of
Canada is secretary -treasurer. Jim Magee of Ontario Cattlemen's Association is
past chairman. Other directors include: Paul Karges, Chicken Farmers of
Ontario; Murray DeLouw of the Ontario Egg Producers' Marketing Board; Terry
Otto of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture and Greg Morrison of the Ontario
Turkey Producers Marketing Board.0
Musgrave, Renwick
to be inducted
in Hall of Fame
Two western Ontario residents will
be inducted June 14 into the Ontario
Agricultural Hall of Fame at the
Farm Museum at Milton.
Guest speaker at the induction
ceremony will be Lyle Vanclief,
Minister of Agriculture and Agri -
food Canada.
A. H. K. (Arthur) Musgrave of
Clarksburg, was born in Huron
County in 1894. He owned and
operated a mixed farm and apple
orchard in Clarksburg. He was
instrumental in establishing the Co-
operative Fidelity and Guarantee
Association, one of the organizations
which combined with co-operative
insurers from other areas of Canada
to form the present Co-operators
Group.
Art Musgrave's commitment to the
co-operative movement and his skills
as a mediator and facilitator left a
lasting impression on the agricultural
industry. He died in 1997.
Walter Bruce Renwick of
Belmore, was bom in Huron County
in 1929. Renwick, more than anyone
else, has had a tremendous impact on
Canada's sheep industry. In 1978 he
imported 700 registered Polled
Dorsets from New Zealand and
maintained a flock of approximately
700 ewes from that date. The positive
effects of that importation are still
very much in evidence in the
Canadian sheep scene today. Locally,
he was also instrumental in formation
of the Western Ontario Lamb
Producers Association. He died in
1995.
Others inducted include: Peggy
Knapp of Guelph, active with the
Women's Institute since 1950;
Howard W. Malcolm of Victoria
County, a former chairman of the
Ontario Pork Producers Marketing
Board; Douglas Lyal Parks, former
instructor at Kemptville College and
Deputy Minister of Agriculture for
Nova Scotia from 1965-1973; and
Bruce Wallace, Simcoe, Norfolk
County Horticulturalist.0