Scholarships awarded
Seventy students who plan to study agriculture or forestry have been awarded $1,500 scholarships from Monsanto Canada.
The company’s Opportunity Scholarship Program received 172 applications this year, the most it has ever received.
An independent panel of judges selected the winners based on their academic performance, leadership capabilities and involvement in giving back to charities or other service groups in their local communities. All applicants were also required to submit an essay that answered the question, “In what area of agriculture or forestry would you like to work and why?”
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This year’s winners are all high school graduates from farm families who are now enrolled in a first-year agriculture or forestry-related degree or diploma program at a recognized Canadian educational institution.
This year’s judges were Bob Adamson, director of the Agriculture Biotechnology Enrichment program; John Morriss, associate publisher and editorial director at Farm Business Communications; Ellen Pruden, education and promotions co-ordinator with the Manitoba Canola Growers Association; and Johanne Ross, executive director of Agriculture in the Classroom-Manitoba.
Almost $1 million in scholarships have been awarded since Monsanto Canada began the program in 1991.
Details about next year’s program will be released in February.
Food drive
Farm Credit Canada hopes to collect more than 500,000 pounds of food for the hungry in rural Canada through this year’s Drive Away Hunger program, which started earlier this month.
The program began in Ontario in 2003 when an FCC employee organized a local tractor tour to collect food donations from businesses. Since then, six provincial and four corporate office tours have been conducted.
This year the program is going national. Tours will take place the week of Oct. 13 in Alberta, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Regina, where the company’s head office is located. FCC will also collect food and money at its field offices.
All food and cash that is collected will be donated to Canadian food banks.
For more information, visit www.DriveAwayHunger.ca.
DuPont appointment
E. I. du Pont Canada Company has appointed Priscila Vansetti as business director for DuPont Crop Protection–Canada.
She will be responsible for DuPont Canada’s crop protection business and will be a member of its leadership team, which is responsible for developing synergies across DuPont’s operations in Canada and expanding DuPont’s presence in Canada.
Vansetti, who will be based in Mississauga, Ont., joined DuPont Brazil in 1981 and held various positions in regulatory and government affairs as well as research and development in Brazil and the United States. She was also strategic planning manager for the U.S. crop protection business.
She holds a bachelor of science in agricultural engineering from the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
Vansetti replaced Thor Cruse, who transfers to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. as North America strategic planning and marketing manager.
