50 for 50.
This is Egg Farmers of Ontario's 50th anniversary year.
To help mark the occassion, EFO has donated 50 thousand dollars to the Farm & Food Care Foundation.
Former EFO Chair Jim Johnstone was among those who helped establish the Ontario Farm Animal Council in 1987.
OFAC joined with AgCare in 2012 to create Farm & Food Care Ontario.
The Farm & Food Care Foundation will using the donation to help launch programming across Canada.
The goal is to provide a proactive, coalition approach to building trust in food and farming in Canada.
It will be an extension of the work already being done by Farm & Food Care organisations in Ontario and Saskatchewan.
The donation was made at the recent Egg Farmers of Ontario annual convention.
