Horse breed scholarships
The American Quarter Horse Foundation will spend more than $470,000 this year on student scholarships. The money will be allocated to students around the world who are also members of the AQHA.
There will be 54 scholarships in 17 categories available to members who apply by the deadline of Feb. 1, 2006. AQHA scholarship guidelines, support material and an application form may be found on-line at the AQHA website at www.aqha.com/foundation/scholarships.
Past Canadian recipients include Jana Hayne of Country Harbor, N.S., Theresa Peddle of Wawota, Sask., Jason Routledge of Hampton, N.B., and Kayla Smith of Etobicoke, Ont.
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The 2005 AQHA Canadian scholarship recipient is Eryn Butterfield, a student in the agribusiness diploma course at Assiniboine Community College in Brandon. Butterfield received $12,500 US in the ranch and farm heritage category, courtesy of the Charles B. Wang Foundation.
CWB donates to U of A
The Canadian Wheat Board will provide $400,000 to the University of Alberta’s new Agri-Food Discovery Place, due for completion by spring 2006. CWB president Adrian Measner said the investment would provide an unprecedented opportunity for the CWB and western Canadian grain farmers to link arms with a world-class education and research institution.
In recognition of the CWB’s investment, the facility’s grain processing laboratories will be named the Canadian Wheat Board Processing Laboratory. In addition, representatives from the CWB and the Canadian International Grains Institute will serve as members of the facility’s advisory committee.
The facility is under construction on the U of A campus. It will house two major research centres – the Crop Utilization and Enhanced Materials Research Centre, or CUEMRC, and the Meat Safety and Processing Research Centre.
CUEMRC will emphasize grain-based, value-added products with health or other benefits. The CWB’s contribution to the construction will be funded through the CWB’s special account, comprising farmer cheques that have remained uncashed for six years or more.
Organic awards made
The annual British Columbia Organic Harvest Awards were held at the Coast Plaza Hotel in Vancouver
Nov. 5 with awards presented in 11 categories. The event, hosted by the Certified Organic Associations of British Columbia, brings together the B.C. organic community and recognizes leadership and innovation in the organic industry.
This year’s winners included Nature’s Path Foods and Artisan Bake Shoppe for best bakery product, Avalon Dairy and Bradner Farms for best dairy producer, Happy Planet orange juice and Ethical Bean coffee for best non-alcoholic beverage, Kootenay Kitchen vegetable pate for best processed product (non-livestock), Cincott Nursery and Market Garden for best direct farm marketing business, Alderlea Biodynamic Farm for best integrated farm system, Bradner Farms for best livestock producer, Organa Farms smoked turkey bacon for best processed meat product, Salt Spring Natureworks for best retailer, Small Potatoes Urban Delivery or SPUD for best home-delivery system (non-farm) and Crannog Ales Backhand of God stout for best alcoholic beverage.
The B.C. Organic Harvest Awards is the only provincial organic awards program in Canada. The awards recognize COABC members who have established strong, profitable businesses and promoted industry growth through the development of high quality, innovative products. Organic retail sales were estimated at $1 billion to $1.3 billion in Canada in 2003, making Canada the sixth largest market in the world.
