A Simcoe County crop farmer is the new president of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.
Keith Currie, a vice-president for three terms, received 151 votes during the vote at the OFA's Annual General Meeting in Toronto. He was running against two time president Don McCabe.
In a speech to the delegation, Currie shared his worry about what's happening in the farming community.
"I worry that agriculture has built it's own walls. OFA has always been an organization that's represented all farmers and all of agriculture and I feel that's changing," said Currie. "There's a fracturing amongst our industry that's happening at a time that we can least afford it to happen."
With a diploma in Agriculture Production Management from Ridgetown College, Currie manages an eighth-generation dairy and cash crop farm in Simcoe County with his wife Janice and four children.
Currie has been involved with the OFA for 25 years.
--with files from Rodney Hiemstra
