Feature Story Murray Gaunt Ponders His Next Career: “Retirement” by Owen Roberts With the third jewel in his Triple Crown almost complete, the guy who’s done it all in Huron County is finally going to stop doing it. Murray Andrew Gaunt, the perpetual voice of agriculture in Ontario’s breadbasket, will welcome in the new millennium by closing the books on the third of his illustrious careers – as of December 31, 1999, the affable farm boy from West Wawanosh Township who’s been associated with poultry farming, provincial politics and farm broadcasting in the Wingham area for 40 years, will finally retire. Well, sort of. He’ll still report part-time for Wingham-based CKNX, the station he began his broadcast career with as assistant farm director in October, 1959. And he hopes to keep writing his opinion piece for Ontario Farmer every couple of months. And he wants to keep chairing the Ontario Broiler and Hatching Egg and Chick Commission in Guelph, like he’s done since 1985. Oh yes, and he’d like to rejuvenate the European farm tour business he dabbled in many years ago. And then there’s curling, tennis, baseball and golf. He’d like to do more of that, too...in his “retirement”! In occupations where turnover is almost a given, Gaunt has been the exception. From his earliest days as a farm boy on the family’s Hi-Hill Farm near Lucknow, to his lengthy stint as the MPP for Huron-Bruce from 1962 until his political retirement in 1981, to his renowned broadcasting career for CKNX, Gaunt has shown unique foresight, competence and “stick-to-it-tiveness. (Full Story)
Features in the April 1999 Ontario Corn Producer
Spring-Banded Potash Increases Conservation-Till Corn Yield Risks and Reliability of Using Herbicides at Below-Labelled Rates The Ontario Agricultural College Celebrates 125 Years Weed Control in Corn: Helping the Crop Compete

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