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CWB awards graduate fellowships for 2007
August 27, 2007
The CWB has awarded three agriculture students with CWB graduate fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year. The CWB Fellowship Awards program recognizes the students’ academic achievements and helps them pursue their agricultural research.
“The CWB is investing in the future of agriculture in Western Canada,” said Ken Ritter, chair of the CWB’s farmer-controlled board of directors. “This year’s recipients are involved in research that could both save farmers money by reducing chemical use and make them money by adding value to their grain in the ethanol industry.”
Fellowships are allocated each year at the University of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. Students pursuing graduate studies areas related to the production, marketing and utilization of wheat and barley can apply for a CWB fellowship. The value of the awards range between $16,500 and $18,000 and can be renewed in subsequent years of study. Since the program began in 1976, support has been provided to more than 165 students.
The following students are 2007 CWB fellowship winners:
Stephanie Kosinski, Edmonton, AB – Masters student, University of Alberta
Ms. Kosinski’s project, underseeding wheat and barley with clover suitable to western Canadian production, may aid in the development of sustainable grain production by reducing chemical use and decreasing input costs for producers.
Anne Kirk, Sanford, MB – Masters student, University of Manitoba
Ms. Kirk’s objective is to investigate parental lines from the wheat breeding program at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada for the ability to colonize with arbuscular mycorrhiza, an association between a fungus and the roots of a plant. This information may provide an opportunity to reduce phosphorus application on the Prairies.
Lee-Ann Walter, Saskatoon, SK – Masters student, University of Saskatchewan
Ms. Walter’s project seeks to determine nutrient digestibility co-efficients and the digestible energy value for wheat-based dried distillers’ grains and solubles (DDGS), and to design nutritional strategies that incorporate DDGS into finishing rations. Her work may assist with by-product marketability in the growing ethanol industry.
Controlled by western Canadian farmers, the CWB is the largest wheat and barley marketer in the world. As one of Canada's biggest exporters, the Winnipeg-based organization sells grain to more than 70 countries and returns all sales revenue, less the costs of marketing, to Prairie farmers.
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For more information, please contact:
Maureen Fitzhenry
CWB media relations manager
(204) 983-3101
Cell: (204) 227-6927
