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OAC Is Tops Again
For the third year in a row, the Ontario Agricultural College's undergraduate weeds team won the annual Northeastern Weed Society's Collegiate Weed Science Contest, held in August near Newark, Del. And for the second year in a row, the team swept the top awards.
Members of the first-place OAC team were Jim Burns, Andrew Chisholm, Gerard Pynenburg and Chrissie Schill. Second-place OAC team members were Joel Hemingway, William Judge, Adam Pfeffer, and Blair Scott. Pfeffer, Schill and Burns also captured the top three individual undergraduate awards.
Two graduate teams competed, placing fourth and fifth in the contest. Team members were Allan Kaastra, Eric Page, Evan Elford, David Van Dam and Daryl Vermey.
The teams are coached by Prof. Clarence Swanton, Plant Agriculture, with help from Page.
A total of 43 students from six universities participated in this year's contest, which gives students in northeastern Canadian and U.S. universities a chance to broaden their applied agricultural skills and test what they've learned.