January 13, 2012
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It’s never too early to mark your calendar for scholarship opportunities. The Institute of Food Technologists offers several scholarships for the 2013-2014 academic year. Applications will be available in February 2013. Scholarships are available for freshmen, sophomores, juniors & seniors, and graduate students. Scholarships range from $1,000 to $3,000. For complete details, visit IFT.org.
January 4, 2012
By Meghan Grebner
One area farmer-owned cooperatives is helping 20 college bound students again this year. Co-Alliance Solutions has committed $20,000 in academic awards to children and grandchildren of co-op members. The one-time awards of $1,000 each will go to high school seniors who demonstrate outstanding leadership and plan to study agriculture. Co-Alliance CEO Kevin Still says they […]
January 3, 2012
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AgStar Financial services has twenty $1,000 scholarships up for grabs in 2013. Applicants must be a high school senior living in the AgStar local service area. Seniors should have a GPA of 3.0 and plan to major in an ag-related field, or have a background in rural living. Applicants are selected based on academic achievement, […]
December 8, 2011
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For students studying agriculture and other business related majors during 2012, Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, which serves farmers and rural America in Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee, has allocated more than $100,000 in scholarships. FCS will be offering 42 scholarships to FCS members or children of members who are attending college. Those scholarships are between […]
November 21, 2011
By Tom Steever
For the fourth year in a row the South Dakota State University Dairy Products Judging Team won the 90th Collegiate Dairy Products Evaluation Contest. The SDSU team competed earlier this month at the Kraft Technology Center near Chicago among forty contestants from 11 universities in the US and Canada. Team Coach, Lloyd Metzger, associate professor […]
November 4, 2011
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High school juniors and seniors interested in cattle and beef production will take home more than 75-hundred dollars in scholarships from the Beef Scholarship Extravaganza coming up December 16th in Ames, Iowa. The event is sponsored by the Iowa Cattlemen’s Foundation (ICF). Teams of two to three students compete at ten different stations that test […]
October 24, 2011
By Tom Steever
The American Royal expected up to a couple thousand head of cattle, hogs, sheep and goats for livestock shows in Kansas City that began late this past week. “And of course, that’s our heritage,” said Bob Petersen, CEO of the American Royal. “We were founded in 1899 as a livestock show here in the Stockyards […]
September 23, 2011
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In an effort to convince more young people to consider agricultural lending as a career, the Nebraska Bankers Association (NBA) worked with the University of Nebraska to set up an Ag Lending major. NBA provides scholarships and internships to students, and according to the group’s president George Beattie, they’ve been pleased with the results of […]
