Company wins innovation challenge
Growing Greener Innovations is the winner of the International Minerals Innovation Institute’s Alternative Energy System Innovation Challenge.
The Canadian energy technology company is focused on engineering and manufacturing batteries, battery management systems and battery energy storage systems for residential, commercial and industrial customers.
The challenge was organized with IMII’s minerals industry members BHP, Cameco, Mosaic and Nutrien and supported by the Challenge Dialogue System Network.
Growing Greener’s technology is a battery energy storage system with the potential to minimize downtime and diesel-fired electricity generation when back-up power is required at a mining operation.
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The contest sought innovative solutions to provide Saskatchewan’s minerals industry with new technologies that could be tested at a mine site to improve energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Two finalists — Growing Greener and Anax Power — shared $500,000 in prize money to complete front-end engineering design studies and advance their business case with an IMII minerals member company.
4-H Canada seeks award nominations
Nominations will end Sept. 30 for the 4-H Canada Awards, which recognizes exceptional 4-H alumni, leaders and supporters.
- National Volunteer Leader of the Year — supported by Co-operators
- Distinguished Alumni Award — supported by Glacier FarmMedia
- Honourary member — supported by Farm Credit Canada (open to 4-H Canada voting members only)
Sustainable cropping chair launched
A new faculty chair funded this year at the University of Guelph will focus on producing more food on less space.
The Martin and Denise Pick Family Chair in Sustainable Cropping Systems will be supported by a $2 million gift to the Ontario Agricultural College, along with funding from OAC and an anonymous bequest.
Research and teaching under the new position is intended to focus on growing food crops more efficiently to ensure food security while keeping soil healthy.
Sustainable cropping systems use methods including crop rotation and cover cropping, soil science, precision agriculture and remote sensing to grow food while protecting the environment.
The chair holder is expected to be named in early 2023.
OYF scholarship winners named
Kate Axten of Minton, Sask., and Darby Goetz of Mildmay, Ont., have been selected as the Outstanding Young Farmers Memorial Scholarship winners for 2022.
Each winner has received a $1,000 scholarship to support their post-secondary agricultural education.
Axten credits her parents for her passion for agriculture and will attend the University of Dalhousie to study international food business this fall.
Goetz was raised on a farm and appreciates the learning opportunities it brings. She will continue working toward a diploma of veterinary technology at the University of Guelph this fall.
As part of the application process, applicants are asked to write an essay about why they are passionate about agriculture in Canada.
Full details and application forms for the OYF Memorial Scholarships are available at www.oyfcanada.com.
