Dr John E. Moxley, founder of DHAS in 1966
(picture taken in the 80's)

1966: furst central computer, an IBM 1620,
one of the first medium sized computers,
affordable by Colleges

1978: all of PATLQ is at the "Poultry"
building on the Macdonald Campus

PATLQ shareholder representatives in 1994, when the Quebec Dairy Producers Federation (FPLQ) becomes the majority shareholder. L. to R.: Bertrand Farmer, P.Ag., new General Manager since 1993, André Vézina, Deputy Minister at MAPAQ, Marcel Couture, Vice-Dean for research and Manager of the GEEA program, Macdonald Campus (McGill University), Claude Rivard, President of FPLQ, Lucien Biron, President of PATLQ and of SOQUIA (Quebec Society for agrifood initiatives), Roger Buckland, Dean, Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, McGill University.

Inauguration of Valacta, April 2006. L. to R.: Gilbert Rioux, then President of Valacta, Roger Cue, Ph.D., Board Member, McGill University, Yvon Vallières, then Minister at MAPAQ, Bertrand Farmer, agr., Valacta's General Manager and Marcel Groleau, President of FPLQ and also President of Valacta since 2006.

1968: MTA analyser for milk butterfat

1974: all field data comes handwritten and must be typed on computer cards. Jean Perreault and Nina Mitchell at dactylocoding.

Every cow's production data
ends up on a punched card

The PATLQ laboratoiry in 1988.

By the end of the 80's, the portable computer arrives at the farm. Yvan Lizotte, Advisor,
Côte-du-Sud.

21 October 2006: John E. Moxley is affectionately congratulated by Robert Moore, Scientific Director at Valacta and Norm Campbell, who was the first Manager at DHAS/PATLQ.

1966: Randall Mcdonald, 4th dairy producer enrolled on milk recording, with Norm Campbell, first employee of DHAS / PATLQ / Valacta

26 April 1966: Ferme Fréjour, St-Thomas d'Aquin, is one of the first to benefit from a dairy test. Norm Campbell talks about herd improvement with Réal Fredette.

April 2006: after 40 of progress with
DHAS, then PATLQ, and now Valacta:
famr owners Gilbert and Jean-Noël Fredette, with Diane Fugère, wife of Gilbert, and
their father Réal, still active on the farm.
Read the article published in
Évolution laitière 2005 (PDF, 475K, in French)

Boris Yeltsyn, president of Russia
in the '90s, was impressed
by the expertise of PATLQ

The 21st century Valacta laboratory.

21 October 2006:
the Macdonald College alumni
pay tribute to Dr. John E. Moxley.
Here with Douglas MacKechnie,
who was Manager of the Federal ROP program,
and his grand-daughter Amanda.
Photo album (PDF, 644K)

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