The Rural Voice, 1979-01, Page 8involved "in every workslop going on pigs and feed."
Mr. Keller's father Willie is a member of the Ontario Pork
Producers' Marketing Board. and Kurt plans to take advantage
of his father's knowledge as well.
At this point, Kurt Keller said he plans to learn as he goes
along and "1 will work at little harder at learning things 1 might
have learned (at agricultural college)."
Mac Armstrong. after working as an assistant ag. rep.,
doesn't use OMAF services as much as some of the other
farmers interviewed. The beef producer. a director of the Bruce
County Beef Producers Association. thinks farmers should
belong to some outside organization whether it's a council. a
hospital board. a farm organization or a recreation baord, just to
get some "exposure and to see how other things are run."
He credits his time iwth OMAF as a true learning experience
and says today: "It benefit ed me more working for OMAF than
OMAF made from me."
PAUL AND GLEN AHRENS
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His contacts with OAC have also proved beneficial and the
beef farmer said he still calls professors at the university every
now and then for advice.
Also, with his career in agribusiness, Mr. Armstrong knows if
he was every injured on the farm, he would have other
experience to fall back on.
Like Frank Sinatra, the farmers we interviewed had minor
regrets, but they were really "too few to mention."
However, they did have some advice, gleaned from their own
experiences, to pass on to other people just entering the field.
Tom Melady said, "The main thing a young farmer must do
when he's starting out is to take a critical look at his operation
and push for quality rather than quantity." For. example, he
could start by looking at something as basic as how to increase
his litter pigs per sow per year.
YOUNGER
Mr. Melady, who's been farming for eight years now, said the
hardest period was when he was younger. His friends didn't
have the same responsiblities he did, and while he was
harvesting crop, they could be off socializing. Now, there are
more young farmers in the area, and Tom Melady has "no
regrets" about his choice of a career.
Kurt Keller. still a novice at the business, offered only one
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