The Rural Voice, 1983-10, Page 26FARM NEWS
Ridgetown College fills staff positions
Three staff positions at the
Ridgetown College of Agricultural
Technology are now filled, one by a
former staff member returning to
education after nine years as a farm
manager in Essex county.
David Beattie returns to R.C.A.T.
as head of the Farm Economics sec-
tion, a position he held until 1974
when he undertook to manage a cash
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crop and beef cattle enterprise near
Harrow.
Beattie, who holds a master's
degree in Livestock and Farm
Management, was also previously a
staff member at the college as a
livestock specialist from 1966 to 1969.
He says his priority for administering
the Farm Economics section is to en-
sure that farmers and students "ab-
sorb as much financial management
instruction as they can". Both
diploma courses and short courses, as
well as the federally -funded extension
courses in farm financial manage-
ment that are administered by the col-
lege, will continue under Beattie's
leadership.
A second college position has been
filled, in the Livestock section by
Adrian Vander Wielen from Stor-
mont county. He assumes duties as a
lecturer and researcher for beef and
dairy programs.
Vander Wielen holds a master's
degree in Reproductive Physiology
from the University of Guelph,
graduating in the spring of this year.
He also has experience working as an
artificial insemination technician and
he has an extensive background in
dairy cattle.
A third position, a new position
created in response to the needs of
tomato growers and growers' associa-
tions is now filled by Kent County
native, Richard Wright. He recently
assumed his role as a Tomato Plant
Breeding Technician with the respon-
sibility for assisting in the evaluation
and selection of processing tomato
varieties.
Wright has a diploma and a degree
in horticulture and experience work-
ing in processing tomato breeding
and selection in private industry,
prior to coming to Ridgetown Co! -
lege.
The creation of this newest position
at R.C.A.T. is in recognition, says
Horticulture and Biology section
head Rudy Brown, of a crop that is
"front and centre in southwestern
Ontario" and of one with a potential
for increase due to import replace-
ment policies regarding the tomato
paste industry. ❑
Australians visit Durham area farm
Recently two Australians visited
the dairy farm of Art Mathews and
sons at R.R. 3, Durham.
Paul Gardiner, manager and Bill
Fulkerson, consultant, of the large
Commercial Dairy Research Farm in
Tasmania, Australia spent a month in
the U.S. visiting large dairy farms, to
gain knowledge to take back to their
homeland. They spent two weeks
visiting farms in Ontario.
During the Australians' visit,
Mathews and his sons learned alfalfa
isn't grown in Australia due to lack of
sufficient rainfall. Farmers there
produce other types of haylage to
feed their dairy herds.
The Australians were impressed
with the feeding system at the
Mathews' farm and were surprised
that the herd remains indoors both
summer and winter.')
Durham Chronicle
Ontario observes World Food Day
Ontario will once again this year be
joining in the world-wide observance
of malnutrition and food supply pro-
blems around the globe on World
Food Day, Sunday, October 16,
Agriculture and Food Minister Den-
nis Timbrell announced.
World Food Day began in 1981 as a
commemoration of the founding of
the Food and Agriculture Organiza-
tion of the United Nations. The
observance is held each year on Oc-
tober 16, the date the FAO was
founded in 1945.
Across the province, people will be
marking this day in a variety of ways
such as setting up displays, holding
educational seminars, listening to
speakers, watching films -- all design-
ed to heighten awareness of world
food issues.
One popular activity is the holding
of hunger lunches by school group,
or church clubs. These feature food,
of a type and in a quantity typical
meals in the world's less-developL.i
areas.-