The Rural Voice, 2006-05, Page 62People in Agriculture
Doug Eadie wins Cooper Award
Ripley -area farmer Doug Eadie
has been awarded the 2005 Tommy
Cooper Award from CFOS Radio
Station Owen Sound, and The Sun
Times as the person making the
greatest contribution to agriculture
and rural living in Grey and Bruce
Counties during the past year.
Eadie is currently president of the
Ontario Com Producers' Association
(OCPA) and a provincial director for
Bruce and Grey Counties as well as
president of the Bruce County Corn
Producers. He was also OCPA
representative to the Canadian
Renewable Fuels Association.
As OCPA president, Eadie has
been an influential spokesperson for
the Risk Management Program.
Doug Eadie (right)
accepts the Tommy
Cooper Award from
Mark Douglas of
CFOS radio in
Owen Sound. The
award is given for
outstanding
contribution to
agriculture in Grey
and Bruce
Counties. Eadie,
from Ripley. is
president of the
Ontario Corn
Producers
Association.
Other nominees were: Wayne
Caughill, RR2, Conn for activities
with the Proton Township and Grey
County Federations of Agriculture
and Grey -Bruce Pork Producers;
Paul De Jong, youngest -ever
president of the Grey County Fed-
eration of Agriculture and Ontario's
Outstanding Young Farmer for 2004;
Mac Gamble, RR3, Chatsworth, still
active in the Chatsworth Agricultural
Society at age 73; Ruth Hamill,
RR4, Chatsworth, active with the
Women's Institute since 1940 as well
as with Farm Safety Association and
Sam Lemon, RR3, Markdale, for his
work with the agricultural society,
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Lloyd Graham, left, and his wife Dee, accept the Bruce County Federation of
Agriculture "Award Of Merit" from BCFA President Robert Emerson.
John Bancroft
honoured with
Merit Award
John Bancroft, swine specialist
with Ontario Ministry of
Agriculture. Food and Rural
Affairs, was one of two winners of
the 2005 Ontario Pork Industry
Merit Award at the annual meeting
of Ontario Pork in London in
March.
Bancroft has been involved in
extension activities since 1983 in
Huron and Perth Counties. He
served as chair of the Ontario Pork
Congress in 2002 and remains
actively involved; is chair of the
London Swine Conference; co-
ordinated the barrow show at the
Royal Winter Fair for many years;
and helps organize many different
swine extension events each year.
He provides weekly newsletters and
market commentaries for Ontario
pork producers.
Also honoured was Will Nap,
former chairman of Ontario Pork
and a Simcoe County Pork
Producer. As Ontario Pork chair
from 1998 to 2000, Nap helped
steer the industry through some of
its darkest days.0
Lloyd Graham wins
Award of Merit
Lloyd Graham of Lucknow has
been given the Bruce County
Federation of Agriculture's "Award
of Merit".
Graham has been a BCFA
director for 16 years, was a founding
member of the Grey -Bruce Clean
Water Festival; was a member of the
Bruce County Tree Cutting By -Law
committee; is a member of the Bruce
Resource Stewardship Network;
initiated the "Landowner -Sportsman
Access Agreement to Permit Hunt-
ing and/or Fishing" leases; and was
instrumental in having farmers
represented on the Ontario Nature -
Greenway for Grey and Bruce
Counties Committee.°