Friday, April 26, 2013

Eric McLeod will be missed

I am saddened to learn of  the death of Eric McLeod, a veteran fieldman for the Dairy Farmers of Ontario marketing board. He was 58 when a heart attack took him this week.

I found McLeod a valuable, sensible source of information about milk marketing board policies and activities when his territory embraced the Waterloo Region and I was reporting for the Kitchener-Waterloo Record.

He was respected by dairy farmers because he was polite, informative, never gossiped and was eager to help. As one dairy farmer in Perth County, where he served for the last couple of decades, said, he could tell you about shortcomings he identified during his inspections, but in a way that was helpful.

He was an excellent listener. He will be missed.