Two Albertans have been selected as the 2012 recipients of the Canadian Nuffield Farming Scholarship.
Brenda Schoepp of Rimbey and Ryan Bonnett of Airdrie will join Crosby Devitt of Guelph, Ont., as this year’s scholars.
Schoepp is a marketing adviser and publisher of Beeflink, a weekly newsletter on beef and cattle marketing.
She also coaches corporate executives in production agriculture, research and agribusiness.
Schoepp and her husband own and operate a ranch near Rimbey.
She plans to study the needs and successes of women in agribusiness so that she can build a Canadian mentorship model, according to a Nuffield news release.
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Bonnett is a marketing adviser for Farmlink Marketing Solutions, which specializes in crop marketing and sales consultation. He is originally from a grain farm near Gravelbourg, Sask.
Bonnett plans to explore grain marketing and production risk management around the world and use the information to develop new practices for growers in Western Canada.
Devitt works for Grain Farmers of Ontario and plans to investigate grain research partnerships.
The Nuffield program provides $15,000 to each scholar.
Scholarships are awarded to people “who are judged to have the greatest potential to create value for themselves, their industries and their communities through the doors which will be opened and the opportunities provided,” said the news release.
Applications for 2013 scholarships are due April 30.
