L.H. Gray and Son Ltd. and Gray Ridge Egg Farms have raised $10,000 for two ventures that support the Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC) and Agricultural Groups Concerned About Resources and the Environment (AGCare).
The money was raised through Gray’s fifth annual customer appreciation golf tournament June 21 at St. Marys. The total is about double what organizers anticipated.
More than 160 people, most of them egg farmers or from businesses related to eggs, participated and donated.
The money will go into the newly-formed Farm Care Foundation and the Young Ambassador program begun in 2008 in honour of the late Jim Johnstone, egg farmer and founding chairman of OFAC.
Bill Gray, owner of Gray Ridge, said “we saw our golf tournament as being a
great opportunity to raise awareness and support for this valuable
cause.
“We're proud to be part of a program that helps to ensure
agriculture's voice is heard by Canadian consumers."
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