Scholarship offered to food students
Agriculture in the Classroom Canada and Dairy Farmers of Canada are offering the DFC Here for Tomorrow Scholarship.
Now in its second year, five $3,000 scholarships are available to Canadian students in Grades 10 to 12.
The scholarship aims to assist youths in making sustainable food choices and career decisions in agriculture and the food sector.
Applicants must submit one of the following: a written essay of 1,500 words, a three-minute video, or a visual arts piece (ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, design, craft, photography, architecture), answering key questions pertaining to their interests, agriculture and food careers, and global sustainability.
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Submissions will be accepted until May 1.
Farm and Food Care names champion
Alanna Koch of Edenwold, Sask., was named the Farm and Food Care champion for 2022.
The annual award recognizes a recipient who has engaged consumers about agriculture and worked to build public trust in farming and food.
Koch is the board chair of the Global Institute for Food Security. She previously served as deputy minister to the premier of Saskatchewan and as cabinet secretary for the provincial government. She is also the former Saskatchewan deputy minister of agriculture, a position she held for nine years.
Before joining government, Koch served as president of the Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance, was a director with Agricore United and executive director of the Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association.
Ag supports Drive Away Hunger
The Drive Away Hunger program has provided the equivalent of more than 40 million meals to food banks and feeding programs across the country this year.
Founded by Farm Credit Canada, the industry-wide initiative has been collecting food and cash for the past 19 years to provide nutritious meals for those who might otherwise not have access.
The program provides food and cash donations, promotes food reclamation initiatives and supports school feeding programs.
It has been a catalyst for the agriculture and food industry to use food reclamation initiatives to support food banks and has encouraged more companies to distribute surplus perishable food products where they are needed.
Photo contest launched
Farm and Food Care has launched a nation-wide farm photo contest with $4,000 in cash prizes available to winners in six categories.
Winning photos may be used by the organization in the upcoming sixth edition of The Real Dirt on Farming as well as other Farm and Food Care initiatives.
The categories include:
- Canadian farm scenes, capturing the beauty of Canada’s rural landscape.
- Faces behind food and farming, from farmers to chefs and everyone in between — all the people who make food and farming possible.
- All about animals — farm animals in the barn or field.
- Farm innovation — technology at work on Canadian farms.
- Crazy about crops — photos of crops being grown in fields, orchards or greenhouses across Canada.
- Farm to plate, showcasing the fresh and nutritious food grown and produced in Canada.
More information, including contest rules, eligibility, format, identification and judging are posted at farmfoodcareon.org/photo-contest/.
Photos must be entered before July 1.
