New Publication Joins FBC Family

Vancouver-based Glacier Media has announced a deal to buy 15 trade publications from Rogers Publishing, including the monthly French-language farmers’ magazine Le Bulletin des agriculteurs. Le Bulletinwill join Glacier’s Farm Business Communications, the Winnipeg-based publisher of the Manitoba Co-operator, Country Guide, Grainews, Canadian Cattlemen, Alberta Farmer Express, Horses Alland AGCanada.com. The sale, which is expected

Manitobans Earn Monsanto Scholarships

Fourteen students from rural Manitoba are among 70 heading into post-secondary agriculture or forestry studies this fall with scholarships worth $1,500 each from Monsanto Canada. The Winnipeg-based Canadian arm of the U. S. seed and chemical company posted a record year for applications to its annual Opportunity Scholarship program, with “over 172” applying for postsecondary