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Times -Advocate, February 3, 1988
Page 13
New staff at COAT
By Yvonne Reynolds
Two departments at CCAT have
new directors. Phil McEwan ar-
• rived at the beginning of the Sep-
tember term to take charge of the
livestock division, and George Gar-
land assumed his duties as head of
agricultural engineering in January
The two recent additions to the
staff of the college have much in
common. Both earned their Bache-
lor and Master degrees from the
University of Guelph. Both have
extensive experience with the min-
istry of agriculture and/or a related
field. Both are young, energetic,
and enthusiastic. Both want to
give the CCAT students more
hands-on, practical experience in
their particular areas of study, and
both want to encourage a closer re-
lationship between the college and
surrounding farming communi:v.
Phil McEwan, who suc .Jed
Dennis McKnight in the livestock
department, was ; ,orn on a dairy
farm near Manotick which is still
being operated by his parents and
his brother. He was a sales rep
with United Cooperatives of Onta-
rio for two years after graduating
from Guelph before returning to
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Science degree.
McEwan was employed as a full-
time lecturer at Kemptville Agri-
cultural College before corning to
CCAT. His training in dairy cattle
genetics was applied to responsi-
bility for culling and breeding the
college's dairy herd, and heading
the judging team. He was also put
in charge of the annual Farmers'
Week. During his stay at Kempt-
ville he also ran a secondary dairy
enterprise with his brother.
McEwan, who succeeds Dennis
McKnight at CCAT, has some def-
inite goals he wants to implement.
He hopes eventually the college
will acquire more livestock for
demonstration purposes, and to fa-
cilitate teaching. He will be seek-
ing the cooperation of arca farmers
as well, to give the students more
hands-on experience with animals.
This is tied inextricably to his
other goal of helping students "to
get through the system to success-
ful future employment". For
someone who did not grow up on a
farm, actually seeing an animal is
the only way to teach conforma-
tion and showmanship.
"No matter what the course, it's
one thing to take notes, but anoth-
er to actually be doing something.
With the two, the result is a more
balanced education. Students will
better apply their knowledge if a
technique or skill is actually demon-
strated. And when they graduate,
they will have the choice of more
job avenues", McEwan said, citing
herdsman as one of many options.
McEwan is in charge of a staff of
four. His responsibilities include
teaching genetics, nutrition and
dairy husbandry.
McEwan would like to do more
research into genetics, as he worked
in that area for five years after grad-
uation, and secs many exciting tech-
nological developments on the ho-
rizon - gene splitting, cloning -
which can be applied to livestock.
Animal rights is another arca to
be considered. McEwan stated that
a mistreated animal will not per-
form as well as it should; good
treatment is good economics. He
believes the sensible alternative to a
confrontation with animal welfare
groups is for OMAF, producer
groups and concerned parties to sit
down together and draw up a code of
practices.
McEwan anticipates more in-
volvement with the farm communi-
ty, both personally and in connec-
tion with the collcgc. He singled
out participation on fair boards as
one aspiration.
He intends to expand CCAT's
continuing education program to of-
fer more specialty course such as
beginning sheep production and
horse care. Courses dealing with a
specific topic could be lengthened
and given one day a week for a
number of weeks.
McEwan iS open to suggestion
and new ideas.
"We must capitalize on our Ioca-,
tion", McEwan asserted. "The col-
lege needs to get out and find out
what the agricultural community
wants in continuing cducarion."
George Garland brings to CCAT a
comprehensive background in agri-
for his Master of
cultural engineering. He stayed on
the Guelph campus for two years af-
ter graduation to work with what is
now OMAFs milk industry branch,
dealing with manufacturing stan-
dards and installation of milking
equipment. From there, he spent
six months as extension agricultural
engineer in the Grey County Mark -
dale OMAF office before a two-year
stint in the same capacity in Allis-
ton. -While there, he served under.
Jim Weeden; his immediate prede-
cessor
redecessor at CCAT.
CCAT principal Bill Allen is no
stranger to Garland, either. From
1982 until the end of 1987, Garland
•headed the agricultural engineering
section -at New Liskeard College of
Agricultural Engineering.. Allen
was named principal there in Sep-
tember of '84, leaving last May for
his present post. Garland stepped in
as acting principal until the end of
the year.
Garland was asked to join the
CCAT staff to fill the vacancy
created when Weedon resigned to be-.
come manager of the OMAF energy
centre at Guelph last August.
The CCAT department is much
larger than New Liskeard's, with
eight engineers and three techni-
cians, compared with one field engi-
neer at the northern college. how-
ever, the Ontario engineering staff
is divided among five college cam-
puses; the CCAT region encom-
passes Huron, Perth, Bruce, Grey,
Duffcrin, Peel, Simcoc, York and
Durham counties.
- Garland considers his mandate to
be three -fold - education, research
and extension. In the first instance,
he will be giving lectures for the
engineering component of the Agri-
cultural Business Management
course. "
Garland foresees a larger research
role for CCAT in testing and evalu-
ating technology which is new to
this arca. He explained that basic
research is done at Guelph, but
transferring technology from the lab
to the farm is the job of the agricul-
tura! engineer.
As one possibility, Garland men-
tioned the stripper -header being tried
out presently in Europe which
speeds up harvesting of cereal grains
as the combine doesn't have to
thresh out the straw. The bolted -on
attachment strips the heads off and
leaves the straw standing. Massey -
Ferguson has purchased the Northa-
merican distributorship, and Garland
feels the new system could be tested
and evaluated on the CCAT's own
research plots.
Other areas ripe for further explo-
ration arc tingle voltage, hay pack-
aging and alfalfa seed production in
cooperation with the leaf cutter bee.
Another way to pass on engineer-
ing information to the users is
through extension courses. CCAT
is offering a course in welding this
month, and Garland is thinking 'of
seminars on topics such as machin-
ery maintenance, equipment adjust-
ment and sprayer clinics in future.
Garland, like McEwan, wants to
get the CCAT students more in-
volved in the practical application
of what is being taught in the class-
room. This will require the cooper- '
ation of arca farmers in pursuits
such as conservation tillage.
Doing something to improve wa-
ter quality is near the top of Gar-
r land's list of priorities.
"OMAF will have to take a lead-
ership role to try to clear up water
quality. More evaluation must be
done on water from agricultural op-
erations, both out of tiles and sur-
face water", Garland stressed.
"This will have links with soil
conservation, erosion control, land
stewardship and proper manure stor-
age. Programs arc there to assist
farmcrs financially to get back to
good water."
Besides his duties at the collcgc,
Garland is currently chairman of the
Agricultural Engineering Service for
Ontario. This will entail visiting
the eight agricultural offices in this
region as well as a coordinating role
among the five regions to ensure
uniformity of agricultural engineer-
ing services across Ontario.
"Both men will be bringing a new
and different perspective to the col-
lcgc", CCAT principal Bill Allen
commented. Ile too Wants to sec
'more hands-on approach" and more
interaction with local farmers by
"getting out into the agricultural
community and raising the college's
profile".
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