Reading Time: < 1 minute Applications for Monsanto Fund scholarships are now being accepted from Grade 12 students who are pursuing post-secondary education in agriculture or food studies. There are 65 scholarships, worth $1,500 each, available (with up to 25 per cent available to students from non-farm backgrounds). Students can now choose to pursue a post-secondary education in agriculture or […] Read more
Monsanto Fund offering $1,500 scholarships for ag or food studies
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
Albertan one of six scholarship winners
Reading Time: < 1 minute David MacTaggart of Lacombe is one of six winners of scholarships from the Canadian Agri-Business Education Foundation. The scholarships, worth $2,500, are given to Canadian students entering their first year at an accredited agriculture college or university. The foundation encourages students to pursue their passion for agriculture and to bring their new ideas and talent […] Read more
Monsanto Fund offering 65 scholarships
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Monsanto Fund Opportunity Scholarship Program is now accepting applications from Grade 12 students — and this year applicants can be from non-farm backgrounds. The program has traditionally offered 65 entrance scholarships valued at $1,500 each to graduating Grade 12 students from farm families pursuing post-secondary studies in agriculture or agriculture-related fields. This year, eligible […] Read more
A dozen Albertans awarded $1,500 scholarships
The Monsanto Fund awarded 66 first-year scholarships this year
Reading Time: < 1 minute A dozen young Albertans have received $1,500 “opportunity scholarships” from the Monsanto Fund. In their application, each of these young people wrote about experience gained on their family farms, in community involvement, and in high school. “Agriculture has evolved from feeding your own family members to feeding your international family members,” Taylor Lassiter, whose family […] Read more
Co-op moves up timetable for scholarship program
Prairie students planning careers in agriculture or agribusiness now have an earlier deadline to seek funding support through the Co-op Excellence in Ag program. Excellence in Ag, Federated Co-operatives’ (FCL) multi-year scholarship and summer internship program, previously had a Jan. 31 deadline, but for the 2016 round, the application deadline will be Oct. 15 this […] Read more
Want to kick up your management skills a notch?
Reading Time: < 1 minute Producers who want to take their management skills to the next level are being encouraged to apply for the second annual Robert (Bob) L. Ross scholarship program. Ross, a dairy producer from St. Marys, Ont. who died in 2014, was an influential advocate for business management training and a mentor to farmers across the country […] 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
Thirteen Alberta youth win $1,000 scholarships
Reading Time: < 1 minute Thirteen young Albertans are among the 100 4-H youth given a $1,000 scholarship by the Chrysler Foundation. The “100 scholarships for 100 years of 4-H in Canada” means the foundation is giving $100,000 to mark the organization’s centenary. Nearly 200 4-H youth from across Canada applied for the Ram Canada scholarships by submitting 500-word essays […] Read more
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