Two Brooks men inducted into Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame

EDMONTON — Two men from Brooks have been inducted into the Alberta Agriculture Hall of Fame.
 
Garnet Altwasser is the co-founder of Lakeside Farm Industries in Brooks.

He was president and Chief Executive officer at Lakeside for 30 years, as it grew into the largest single-site feeding operation in Canada. He was also involved in establishing the beef packing plant in Brooks.

Altwasser was one of the first commercial adopters of Temple Grandin’s cattle handling designs and was a founding director of the Alberta Cattle Feeders Association.
 
Ron Howard spent more than four decades as a research and diagnostic plant pathologist. 
 
Howard was integral to the expansion and development of research facilities at the Crop Diversification Centre South in Brooks, including the design and construction of the current state-of-the-art greenhouse research complex.
 
He has prepared and delivered more than one thousand articles, presentations and scientific publications during his career.
 
Altwasser and Howard were inducted into the Agriculture Hall of Fame with St Albert greenhouse operator Dieter Kuhlmann, who is past-president and a founding member of the Alberta Greenhouse Growers Association.  Three generations of the Kuhlmann family ran the greenhouse, garden, and market originally founded by Kuhlmann and his wife in 1962.