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Copyright © 2001 Eastern Ontario Farmers Forum Inc. All Rights Reserved

 
ABOUT US

Eastern Ontario Farmers Forum is an independent farm newspaper started in 1992. It is dedicated to supporting the farm community in Eastern Ontario, from Toronto to the Quebec border. The Publisher of Farmers Forum is Patrick Meagher.

Farmers Forum unearths the issues that affect farm life in this region and presents the news in a meaningful way to local farmers. Below are some of the key writers and columnists that bring the news to Eastern and East-Central Ontario.


Terry Meagher

Terry Meagher is the founding publisher of Farmers Forum newspaper and continues to write for Farmer Forum, while working on book projects. He is the author of The 4th R – Reasoning and is a retired lecturer in communications at Kemptville College. He was also an editor for the English Journal and freelance writer for the now defunct Farm and Country newspaper. His articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the United States and Canada.
His first-person account of life on the front lines in the Korean War appears in the Canadian anthology Canadian War Stories. He was on the front lines in the trenches during the last year of the Korean War, as a gunner and radio operator. He appears in the History Channel documentary In Korea with Norm Christie, which aired this year.
Meagher is married with three grown children, and seven grandchildren. He lives in Kemptville.

 

Patrick Meagher

Patrick Meagher is publisher and editor. Married with four children, he is the author of one biography and founder of The Landowner magazine, which he sold. As a student, he worked for one summer on a farm, which he said was the best summer job he ever had. He actually liked haying.
He has worked at The Bermuda Sun as a business editor and was the Canadian editor for the Australian website Mercatornet.com. His articles have appeared in Hoard’s Dairyman, The Globe and Mail , The Toronto Star, Ottawa Citizen and Kingston Whig-Standard. He also worked as a radio broadcaster for CFRW AM station in Whitehorse, Yukon, and as a researcher for the CBC.

 

Dr. L. Drevjany

Formerly a teacher and researcher at Kemptville College, he received a Doctorate in nutrition from McGill University. He has authored several books and is internationally recognized for his work on calf raising.

 

John Madill

John Madill is a researcher and former teacher specializing in oil seeds and forages at Kemptville College. He was brought up on a dairy farm in Mississauga, the only one remaining in the city. He has a masters degree in Agronomy.

 

Paul Sullivan

A former field crop specialist with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food, Paul Sullivan is in private practice in the the Renfrew / West Carleton area. He was brought up on a farm near Peterborough and has a degree in crop science from the University of Guelph.

 

Dr. R. Tremblay

Dr. Tremblay is a graduate of the veterinary college at the University of Guelph, where he taught for some time. He now works for the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food as a clinical veterinarian at Fergus, Ontario. His work takes him to many farms during the year.

 

 

Maynard van der Galien

Maynard van der Galien is a beef farmer and hay producer. He is to marry for the first time in the summer of 2008. He is also a columnist for The Cobden Sun.