Mike and
Amy Cronin of Bluevale are joint winners of the national award as Canada’s best
young farmers.
They share
the award with Patrick and Cherylynn Bos of Alberta.
Amy is
chairman of the Ontario Pork Producers Marketing Board.
She and
Mike both grew up on dairy farms, but now run an international operation that
has 17,000 sows in barns in Ontario and the United States.
They
built the first crate-free farrowing system in North America in 2014.
Patrick
and Cherylynn Bos operate a herd of 1,400 dairy goats in Alberta and have their
own cow and goat-milk and cheese processing business called Rock Ridge Dairy.
