Maurice Delage, Thelma Howard, Carol Teichrob and Graham Simpson were inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame at the Western Development Museum in Saskatoon, Aug. 5.
Maurice Delage was an industry leader in the crop protection business, serving as chief executive officer of Hoechst Canada, AgrEvo and Aventis CropScience, now Bayer CropScience. In 1982, he built a crop protection production facility in Regina. Under his leadership, AgrEvo generated the first genetically modified crop registered in Canada; Liberty Link canola. Delage started a 320 acre canola breeding operation near Saskatoon, and today, Invigor hybrids have a dominant position in the marketplace. He retired from the crop protection business in 2001. He and his family run a large farm near Indian Head.
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Carol Teichrob worked for the betterment of the turkey and egg industries, serving as director and chair of the Saskatchewan Turkey Producers Marketing Board, director for the Canadian Turkey Marketing Agency and director for the Canadian Federation of Agriculture. With the egg industry, Teichrob has served as director and chair of the Saskatchewan Egg Producers and as a director for the Canadian Egg Marketing Agency. She also had a career in municipal and provincial politics, serving as councillor and reeve of the Rural Municipality of Corman Park and two terms as a member of the Saskatchewan legislature from 1991 to 1999.
Throughout her career with the University of Saskatchewan’s Extension Division, Thelma Howard was involved in the lives of rural people, working with 4-H club members and leaders, Women’s Institute members, farm families and other rural groups to provide information on leadership and community development.
Howard’s dedication to the 4-H program in Saskatchewan brought her in contact with many rural girls. She was a mentor to many young women, encouraging them to attain an education, and as a result many of them enrolled in university. Howard’s university sabbatical time was spent working with people in developing nations.
As acting head for the Department of Crop Science at the University of Saskatchewan, Graham Simpson led the effort to establish a separate entity, the Crop Development Centre, from which new crops and crop varieties would be introduced into Saskatchewan agriculture.
He was the first director of the centre from 1971 to 1974. The Crop Development Centre has helped transform Saskatchewan into a province that produces a wide variety of crops.
Simpson also chaired the Growth Chamber Facility Committee for the new Agriculture building, which now houses the largest growth chamber facility in the world.
