Quinte Agricultural Hall of Fame > Donald Hough
DONALD HOUGH
1918-2008
Donald Hough was born in 1918 and farmed his entire career on the family farm near Sillsville. During the depression he left school at age 13 to work full time on the farm but continued his education through short courses and extensive reading. In partnership, first with his father and later two sons, he transformed the mixed farm (milk, cheese, hogs, layers and capons) to a large purebred Holstein operation.
Don was an innovator, possibly being the first in Lennox and Addington to produce soybeans. He was an early grower of winter wheat and an early adaptor of birdsfoot trefoil.
Don was a founder and long-term secretary of the Napanee District Co-op, served as Soil and Crop Director and Chairman and for many years served as county secretary upon formation of the Ontario Milk Marketing Board. For several years he represented L& A on the EBI board and chaired Eastern Breeders for one term. He served on the Quinte Farm Labour Pool, the Farm Debt Review Board, Chair of the local school Board, was a founding member of the South Fredericksburg Planning Board. Don was deeply involved in both the Sillsville and later Adolphustown United Churches. More recently, he was involved in the South Fredericksburg Heritage Committee and authored four books on local history.
Nominated by the Lennox and Addington Federation of Agriculture
Inducted 2008