Saturday, January 18, 2020

Don Fortune dead at 85

Don Fortune, a well-known artificial inseminator and public relations manager for United Breeders, has died. He was 85.

He visited most of the dairy farms in the Waterloo Region, Wellington, Oxford, Perth and Durham counties as an artificial inseminator for Waterloo Breeders which later merged to become United Breeders.

He travelled the world marketing semen, almost all of it from Ontario Holstein bulls.

I fondly recall his visits to our farm because he was always cheerful and helpful.