OCA Board of Directors - 2011
OCA Board of Directors - 2011
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Curtis Royal, OCA PRESIDENT Feedlot Director (3-year term ends 2012)
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Curtis Royal |
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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, and the Central Cattle Feeders
Association. He is a current director on the Ontario Cattle Feeders’ Association
Board and represents OCA as a Director to the Canadian
Cattlemen's Association and also sits on the OCA Government
Relations and Feedlot Committees. |
Dan Darling, OCA VICE-PRESIDENT Cow-Calf Director (3-year term ends 2012)
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Dan Darling |
OCA VICE-PRESIDENT
Cow-Calf Director (3-year term ends 2012)
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OCA
Vice-President, Dan Darling, is entering his sixth year as a
cow-calf director to the OCA Board. Dan resides in the heart of
apple country, in the Township of Cramahe of Northumberland
County where him and his brother Van operate a cow-calf
operation with 250 cows and background calves on 1,500 acres.
They cash crop corn, soybeans and wheat and also sell freezer
beef by the cut and side to local consumers. Dan represents
Ontario beef producers provincially on the Cow-Calf and
Government Relations Committees but also nationally at the
Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA). Dan sits as Executive on
the Board of CCA and more recently was elected to the position
of Officer in March of this year. As a cow-calf producer,
Darling also sits on the Executive to the Canadian Cattle
Identification Agency.
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Bob Gordanier Cow-Calf Director (3-year term ends 2013)
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Bob
Gordanier |
Cow-Calf Director (3-year term ends 2013) |
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Bob joined the OCA Board of Directors in February of 2007 as a
Director-at-Large and was later re-elected in 2009 as a
representative of the cow-calf sector. Bob was born in Hastings
County, grew up in Orillia and now resides in Mono Township of
Dufferin County. Bob, a first generation farmer, operates a
cow-calf forage based operation near Orangeville with his son
Andrew. They background their calves in the summer to a target
weight of 900lbs and sell in the fall. Together the family owns
120 acres and rents a surrounding 700 acres. This father-son duo
are also partners in a sheep operation. Bob represents Ontario
beef producers as a member of the following
organizations/committees: Ontario Director of the Canadian
Cattlemen’s Association and Canadian Cattle Identification
Agency, Member of the OCA Cow-Calf and Government Relations
Committees.
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Rick Hobbs Eastern Director (3-year term ends 2014)
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Rick
Hobbs |
Eastern Director (3-year term ends 2014) |
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 |
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 1500 head of cattle per year. They also 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 Treasurer on the Executive Board (1998-Present), at the
Ontario Agriculture College, University of Guelph. Paul is also the
Ontario Director of the Canada Beef Export Federation, Member of the
Livestock Financial Protection Adjudication Board and the Toronto
Stockyards Land Development Board and the OCA representative of the
Feeder Finance Program.
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Joe Hill Feedlot Director (3-year term ends 2014) |
Joe Hill |
Feedlot Director (3-year term ends 2014) |
Joe and his family operate a feedlot in Wellington County where
they run close to 800 acres in corn, soybeans, wheat and hay.
They purchase the majority of their cattle from local auctions
and operate their farm as a corporation. Joe served on the OCA
Advisory Council for three years and previous to that was a
local Director for the Wellington County Cattlemen's Association
for twelve years. In 2010, Joe was also a member of the OCA
Feedlot Committee and has been very active in meeting with MPs
and MPPs across the province in support of beef issues.
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Bill Herron Backgrounder Director (3-year term ends 2014)
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Bill
Herron |
Backgrounder Director (3-year term ends 2014) |
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) |
Tom Wilson |
Director from Southern Ontario (3-year term ends 2013) |
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Tom was elected
to the OCA Board in February of 2010 as a Southern Director.
Tom, along with his wife Linda and their two sons Doug and Derek
run 2200 acres of corn, beans and wheat and finish 700 cattle a
year into the Ontario Corn-Fed Beef Program. Tom was born and
raised in Corunna, Ontario where he and his father, Keith, built
their first feedlot in 1972 that is still in operation today.
Tom and his family source age-verified and vaccinated cattle and
have converted two other barns into covered feedlots utilizing
funding through the Environmental Farm Plan. Tom currently sits
on the OCA Government Relations Committees. |
Matt Bowman Director from Northern Ontario (3-year term ends 2012) |
Matt Bowman |
Director from Northern Ontario (3-year term ends 2012)
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Entering his
third year as representative of Northern Ontario on the OCA
Board, Matt and his wife Elaine farm in Temiskaming with their
two children, Leslie and Thomas. Operating a Charolais based
cow-calf operation with 110 cows , they also cash crops 700
acres of oats, wheat, barley and canola. Much of the barley and
wheat is grown for seed production and is prepared in their own
seed cleaning plant. To round out their operation they also have
a small pick your own strawberry patch for the locals. On a
national scale, Matt serves as representative of Ontario to the
Beef Information Centre and to compliment his position on the
OCA Research Committee, he also sits on the board at the
National Beef Cattle Research Council. |
Gerald Rollins Cow-Calf Director (3-year term ends 2014)
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Gerald Rollins |
Cow-Calf Director (3-year term ends 2014) |
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. Gerald sits on the
OCA Nominating and Cow-Calf Committee as well he represents OCA as a
Director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council, Ontario Farm
Environmental Coalition and the Ontario Agricultural Commodity
Council.
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John Gillespie Director-At-Large (3-year term ends 2012)
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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. John is Past
Chair of the Beef Information Centre and currently represents
Ontario producers on the OCA Government Relations, Marketing and
Promotions and Nominating Committees. Nationally, he is a
Director to the Canadian Cattlemen's Association as well as the
National Check-off Agency. John has been instrumental in the
planning process of the Canada Beef Implementation Team. |
John Lunn Director-At-Large (3-year term ends 2013)
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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. |