FCC appointment
Rosemary Davis, of Trenton, Ont., was appointed Jan. 8 as a member of the Farm Credit Corporation board of directors.
Davis is owner and manager of Tri-County Agrimart Ltd., a retail and wholesale agricultural business. She has more than 20 years of experience in agriculture.
Agrologists remembered
Two Canadian agrologists, both credited with strides in crop variety development, passed away in December.
Arthur Donald McFadden, the developer of Park wheat and other Canadian cereal grain varieties, died in Lacombe, Alta., in early December. He worked for 33 years at the Lacombe research station as a plant geneticist. Upon retirement, McFadden took several overseas assignments in Tanzania, Thailand and Bolivia.
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James Linden Bolton, an agrologist, botanist and one of Canada’s authorities on alfalfa, passed away in Edmonton Dec. 17. He began his professional career working for the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration in 1935 at Swift Current, Sask., where he helped develop a creeping rooted alfalfa variety called Rambler.
Appointed by Agriculture Canada as plant breeder for alfalfa research, Bolton worked at the University of Saskatchewan for 22 years. There, he developed and released the Beaver variety.
Bolton is author of a book called Alfalfa which is in worldwide use as a reference text. After retirement from Agriculture Canada, he joined the faculty of agriculture at the University of Alberta and continued his research.
Cattle producer election
The Manitoba Cattle Producers Association elected a new president at its annual meeting in December.
Marlin Beever, a rancher from Rivers, Man., takes the reins from past-president Dale Smith of Snow-flake. Beever has been on the group’s board of directors since 1990, most recently as vice-president.
Blair Olafson of Eddystone is now vice-president of the group, while Ken Malenko of Sundown is secretary and Art Petkau of Morden is treasurer.
U.S. farm group leaders
New leaders were elected by two of four main farmers organizations in the United States in December.
Kermit Richardson, of Orange, Vt., was elected president of the Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry. Jeanne Davis, of Denver, Colo., was elected vice-president.
Eugene Paul, of Delavan, Minn., was elected president of the National Farmers Organization.
The American Farm Bureau Federation will elect officers this month and the NFU will hold its annual delegates convention in March.
