Speaker Bio – to be featured on event website and event app :
Keith Currie is the President of The Canadian Federation of Agriculture (CFA), Canada’s largest farmers’ organization, representing approximately 190,000 Canadian farm families from coast to coast to coast. After serving on the CFA board for a few years, Currie was elected as the organization’s 1st Vice President in 2019 and in March 2023 became CFA’s President. In April of 2024, Keith was elected to the World Farmers Organization Board of Directors Currie, a Collingwood, Ontario farmer, was born and raised on the family farm and is the 8th generation on the farm family operation. Currie graduated with a diploma in Agriculture Production Management from the University of Guelph, Ridgetown College in 1982. Upon Graduation, Currie returned home to manage the family dairy and cash crop farm in Simcoe County with his wife Janice and together they have raised four children. With the dairy herd dispersed in 2003, Currie’s operation now focuses on production of grains and oilseed, forages for dry hay, along with a sweet corn and gladiolus flower production. Over the years, Currie has represented many agriculture boards and organizations at the regional, provincial and federal levels serving on both livestock and cropping organizations. Keith is the Past President of the Ontario Federation of Agriculture(OFA) and has had 25+ years of board experience with the OFA. Agriculture Co-operatives, Dairy Herd Improvement association, Fair Boards, Holstein Clubs, Soil and Crop Improvement.
