Reading Time: 2 minutes Three Hills farmer earns Alberta’s Outstanding Young Farmers award through marketing of Alect Seeds to bring the best varieties and crop types to their customers and improve the quality of the land they farm.
Outstanding Young Farmer named in Alberta
Sarah Weigum’s work with Alect Seeds earns her Alberta’s Outstanding Young Farmers award
Alberta brothers are Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Gem, Alberta’s Doerksen brothers are Canada’s 2024 Outstanding Young Farmers.
Alberta and B.C. producers stand out at young farmer event
Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmer event recognizes excellence
Reading Time: 2 minutes Producers from Alberta and B.C. are among the winners of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmer (COYF) national event. Greg and Sarah Stamp of Enchant, Alberta and Brad and Travis Hopcott of Pitt Meadows, B.C. were chosen from seven regional farmers at the event, held in Laval, Quebec November 22 to 26. “Every year the regional finalists […] Read more
Two $1,000 student scholarships available
Applications must be received by June 30
Reading Time: < 1 minute Applications are now open for Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers’ Memorial Scholarships. Two $1,000 scholarships will be awarded to Canadian agriculture students. One scholarship will go to an individual entering post-secondary education from high school, and one to an individual who has already completed at least one year of post-secondary study. Applicants must be pursuing a […] Read more
Two $1,000 OYF scholarships available
Reading Time: < 1 minute Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers Program has two $1,000 scholarships to help students pursue a post-secondary education. One OYF Memorial Scholarship is for a new high school graduate and the other for someone who has already completed at least one year of post-secondary study. Students must be in an agriculture diploma or degree program. Each applicant […] Read more
VIDEO: Busy Ponoka couple named Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers
Reading Time: 3 minutes Jammed packed doesn’t begin to describe it. On Nov. 20 in Edmonton, Patrick and Cherylynn Bos were named co-winners of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers award. Then it was back to Rock Ridge Dairy near Ponoka to fire up the most technologically advanced goat milking parlour on the continent and train 700 skeptical does to use […] Read more
Young cattle producer from Provost wins OYF scholarship
Reading Time: < 1 minute Myles Butt of Provost is one of two recipients of Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers memorial scholarships. Butt and Ontario’s Deanna Ringelberg will each receive $1,000 to support their post-secondary agricultural studies in Canada. Butt is a fourth-generation farmer, and his family grows 3,000 acres of crops and raises about 700 head of commercial beef cattle. […] Read more
Enchant couple honoured by Outstanding Young Farmers program
Reading Time: < 1 minute Enchant seed growers Marian and Richard Stamp were recently awarded the W.R. Motherwell award by Canada’s Outstanding Young Farmers. The award recognizes outstanding service to an individual or couple dedicated to Canada’s OYF program. The Stamps were regional OYF winners in 1998 and since then have been dedicated supporters of the program. “Rick and Marian […] Read more
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