Feature Story
Gord Surgeoner:
Making Agriculture Make Sense
By Owen Roberts
Inside agriculture – and out – Gord Surgeoner’s name has
become synonymous with clarity, brevity and applicability. The 49-year old native of Newmarket, ON, is as comfortable
talking to farmers and students as he is government bureaucrats and cabinet ministers. And they’re comfortable
listening, because Surgeoner knows how to speak their language. It may not always be a message that pleases them,
but there’s no question they’ll understand.
“I’ve been stirring the pot since day one,” says 
Surgeoner, who in January started a two-year
leave of absence from the University of Guelph to serve as president of
Guelph-based Ontario Agri-Food Technologies (OAFT). “You have to take
the heat and stand up for what you believe in.”
Surgeoner, who replaces OAFT’s founding president Murray McLaughlin (see
story in January’s newsletter), has marched to a different drummer all
of his life. While other kids were dreaming of a future as a baseball
or hockey star, he was trying to explain to his guidance teacher why he
wanted to be a lepidopterist – a butterfly collector. Bugs pushed this
lad’s buttons, and when the bug collection he put together for his Grade
8 science class earned him 50 out of 50, his destiny as an entomologist
(bug scientist) was defined. (Full Story)
Features in the March 1999 Ontario Corn Producer
Practical
Considerations for Bt Refuge Management
Bt
Survey
Critical
Weed Control Project
Ontario's
Roads and Trucking - Transportation Issues
Long-Term
Income Strategies for Corn Farmers
OCPA
Annual Meeting, London, Ontario - March 2 & 3, 1999