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PICTURE COMING SOON
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Curtis Royal |
OCA PRESIDENT
Feedlot Director (3-year term ends 2012)
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Curtis Royal and his wife live in Simcoe County where he has
farmed since 1971, running a feedlot. He is a past director of the
Simcoe Cattlemen’s Association and is a past president of both the
Ontario Feeder Finance Committee, the Central Cattle Feeders
Association. He is a director on his township’s Agricultural
Advisory Council and on the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association.
He represents OCA on the Ontario Agricultural Commodity Council.
His goal is to help promote change that will make the beef
industry in Ontario more profitable and sustainable. |
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Dan Darling |
OCA VICE-PRESIDENT
Cow/Calf Director (3-year term ends 2012)
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Dan and his family farm in Northumberland County. They have a
cow/calf operation and run 170 cows and background calves on
1,100 acres. Dan has served as an Advisory Councillor to the OCA
for three years and has served on many different Boards such as
Cramahe Township Nutrient Management Committee, Northumberland
County Strategic Planning Committee, and Northumberland Pork
Producers where he was President for three years. Dan has also
been a team member of the Four Counties Cattlemen’s Association
Steering Committee.
As a Director to the OCA, Dan looks forward to
doing his part in leading the Ontario Beef Business into the
future. |
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Bob
Gordanier |
Cow/calf Director (3-year term ends 2013) |
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Bob Gordanier and his family farm in Dufferin
County, Mono Township (north of Orangeville) where they have run 100
commercial cow for 25 years, as well as growing hay, barley and
beans on 900 acres of owned and rented land. Gordanier also
backgrounds and finishes his own cattle, depending on markets.
Gordanier was involved in the original development of Feeder
Finance (Central Cattle Feeders) and was Director of that for 12
years. Gordanier is also a former Director with the Orangeville Fair
Board. He has served 4 years with the Dufferin Federation of
Agriculture, 20+ years with Dufferin Cattlemen's Association
(including President and Vice-President) and has served on the OCA
Advisory Council and Cow/calf Committee (including 2 years as
Chair). |
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Rick
Hobbs |
Cow/calf Director (3-year term ends 2011) |
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Rick Hobbs and his family farm in the Ottawa/Carleton district of
Ontario, where they run 160 cow/calf pairs. They
also have a feedlot and have run a dairy operation for nearly 30
years. The
family also run a sales barn operation that specializes in purebred,
dispersal and commercial cow/calf sales and they have run Vermeer
Farm Equipment sales for 20 years. Rick has been active as a 4-H
leader for the past 8 years and participates in the AYPA
(Anglican Young People's Association) leadership program.
He has been President and Advisory Councillor for the Ottawa
Cattlemen's Association and also has served as Director to
the local Feeder Co-op (9 years) and Breeder's Co-op (4
years).
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Paul
Sharpe |
Feedlot Director (3-year term ends 2013) |
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Paul Sharpe and his family farm in Wellington County where they
Co-own and operate a family feed mill, grain elevator, input supply
business, and livestock and dry freight trucking business. They
finish 1000 head of cattle per year. They also cash crop Cash crop
soybeans, corn, and wheat on 7000 acres. Sharpe is a current
Director on the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association and served as
Executive Director (1994-1998) and Alumni Executive Director
(1998-Present), at the Ontario Agriculture College, University of
Guelph. He is currently a committee Member for the Ontario
Agri-Business Association, Grain Section, Committee Member and
Delegate to the Ontario Wheat Board (2003-Present) and has served as
Committee Member and Delegate to the Ontario Soybean Growers
(2003-2005).
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Doug Kaufman |
Feedlot Director (3-year term ends 2011) |
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Doug Kaufman has both a cattle feedlot and sow farm in Oxford
County. He has also owned a livestock trucking company for 40
years. Kaufman is a founding member of the Ontario Cattle
Feeders’ Association, a member of the Oxford Cattlemen’s
Association and represents OCA to the Canadian Animal Health
Coalition. One specific area of interest has been his
involvement with the Northwest Project regarding increased
feeder cattle imports to Canada. He is a firm believer in
creating increased cooperation between all beef organizations
for the betterment of the entire industry. |
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Bill
Herron |
Backgrounder Director (3-year term ends 2011) |
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Bill
Herron and his family farm in the Grey Bruce area near Tara.
He has owned beef cattle for thirty years however he sold
the feedlot he operated in 2003.
The Herron’s current enterprise is background oriented with
some home-raised and the balance purchased calves.
Bill has been the Supervisor for the Bruce Grey Cow Finance
Coop and the Twin County Feeder Finance Coop since August 2005.
Bill has been a participant in the Grey County Cattlemen’s
Association executive since 1990 in various positions;
secretary/treasurer since 1998.
He has served as Advisory Councillor since 2004.
In addition he is Past-Chairman of the Grey-Bruce
Agriculture committee and the Backgrounder representative on the
OCA Cow-calf committee since 2006.
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Tom Wilson |
Director from Southern Ontario (3-year term ends 2013) |
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Tom and his family live and farm near Corunna in
Lambon county where they cash crop 2100 acres of corn beans and
wheat as well as finishing 625 heifers in 2009. Their first
feedlot was built in 1972, and is still in operation. They
converted two other barns to covered feedlots, one through the
EFP. All their cattle are finished on the Ontario Corn-Fed
Beef Program, and all are sourced to be age-verified and
vaccinated. Tom is the newly-elected President of the
Lambton Cattlemen's Association, and has been Lambton's
Provincial Director on the OCPA for the last 5 years, as well as
representing OCPA on the Board of CRFA last year. He is the past
Provincial Director of OCPA as well. Tom is also well-versed in
government relations at the local level and has had extensive
experience in dealing with the media. |
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Matt Bowman |
Director from Northern Ontario (3-year term ends 2012)
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Matt Bowman and his family farm
in the heart of
Temiskaming district. They currently cash crop approximately 600
acres of oats, wheat, canola and barley and run 110 Charolais-cross
cows. Matt has served as
Chairman of the OCA Cow/calf Committee, and has
served as an OCA Advisory Councillor for three years. He
has been President of the Temiskaming Cattlemen’s Association,
is Past-Chair of the Temiskaming Crops Coalition,
Chair
of the advanced payment program Committee for the Temiskaming
Grain Growers Association and Chairman of the Ontario Forage
Crop Committee. Matt
believes that the Ontario beef
industry will have a larger percentage of the cattle of the
province involved with value added and value chain systems,
which will help in providing an increased market share for
Ontario product. |
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Gerald Rollins |
Director from Eastern Ontario (2-year term ends 2011) |
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Gerald Rollins owns and operates
Quarry Hill Farms full time with his wife Louise and their two
daughters. It is a 700-acre family farm with 100 beef cow-calf to
finish operation, established in 1975. Gerald grows most of his own
feed consisting of hay, some haylage and oats. Cracked corn and
supplements are the only outsourced feed products on the farm.
Gerald has an extensive background in community service,
particularly with respect to agriculture. He has served
as:
President of Renfrew County Cattlemen’s Association from 1999 to
2003; OCA Advisory Councillor since 2004; Renfrew County
Federation of Agriculture – Executive Director 2008/2009; Renfrew
County Cattlemen’s Association – President 1999 to 2003; Beef
Improvement Ontario – Director 1996-1999; Healthy Futures for
Ontario Agriculture in Renfrew County – Project Coordinator (2003);
founding member and Vice-chair of Renfrew County Agriculture
Leadership Advisory Committee 2000-2002 – Chair 2003 – 2008.
Gerald envisions an
industry where Ontario producers can be secure in the knowledge that
they will have a guaranteed return for their labours and on their
investment now and in the future, whether they are established
producers or new farmers entering the industry. |
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John Gillespie |
Director-At-Large (3-year term ends 2012) |
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John Gillespie and his family run a beef feedlot and cash crop
farm in Waterloo Region, growing soybeans, corn, wheat and
alfalfa. He has been a director to OCA since 1995. He is also a
member of the Waterloo Cattlemen’s Board of Directors and was
actively involved in the 1995 International Plowing Match, when it
was held in Waterloo Region. He is chair of the West Central 4-H
show and sale and is involved in many local organizations. One of
Gillespie’s key areas of interest is in the development of
agricultural safety net programs. He currently sits as chair of
the Ontario Agricultural Commodity Council, a coalition of
non-supply managed Ontario commodity organizations, which is
involved in working with the federal and provincial governments in
developing new business risk management programs under the
Agricultural Policy Framework. |
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John
Lunn |
Director-At-Large (3-year term ends 2013) |
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John farms in Norwood, Ontario where he runs a
finishing operation with 40 plus cows for calving, and finishes
approximately 150 head per year. He also cash crops approximately
300 acres, with corn and hay as the main crop. John has served as
Director of Feeder Finance Club, Director of Peterborough
Cattlemen’s Association and OFA Director for Peterborough. As well,
he's served on Feeder Finance Co-op “East Central”, the Peterborough
Cattlemen’s Association Board of Directors. John is a firm believer
in the OCA as a group to speak for producers with one voice. |
