A farm girl from Graysville is the only Manitoban this year to receive one of the prestigious annual Canadian Agri-Business Education Foundation Scholarships.
Bailey Gitzel, 18, is of six Canadians entering post-secondary education in agriculture to win the scholarship, valued at $2500.
As part of her application for the scholarship, Gitzel wrote an essay about opportunities in agriculture that she finds inspiring.
"I (wrote) a lot about agriculture technology and how that has opened so many doors within agriculture... and how it's also created so many jobs," Gitzel says. "In agriculture nowadays, it's not just a farmer, it's biologists, genetic engineers, chemists, agronomists, vets — I can't name them all because the list will just keep on going."
Gitzel, who has had many entrepreneurial ventures as a young person, producing and selling honey, says she found her passion in agriculture through growing up in rural Manitoba.
Source : Portageonline