Bruce Christie wins Farm and Food Care award

 

The Food Champion Award is presented every year to people, organizations, or businesses that have taken the initiative to engage consumers about agriculture in Ontario. 

Christie was nominated by Dave Crossan of Trouw Nutrition with letters of support from William Bearss and Crystal Mackay. 

He spent 43 years as marketing manager for Shur-Gain - now Trouw Nutrition- and helped to develop livestock, poultry, and pet products. 

He played a key role in creating the model farm exhibit at the Canadian National Exhibition  and supported the Breakfast on the Farm events.

Christie helped establish the Canadian Agri-Marketing Association and the National Farm Animal Care Council. He chaired the Ontario Farm Animal Council from 1999 to 2004 and was instrumental in the talks that resulted in OFAC and AGCare merging to form Farm & Food Care Ontario. He later became the inaugural chair of Farm & Food Care Canada, now named the Canadian Centre for Food Integrity.

He was inducted into the Ontario Agriculture Hall of Fame in 2016.