Iowa Soybean scholarships available for seniors ANKENY, Iowa — The Iowa Soybean Assoc. (ISA) is offering ten $1,500 scholarships to high school seniors planning to pursue agricultural studies at an Iowa college. Applications are due by March 1, and winners will be announced April 15. Scholarships will be awarded to one student in each of Iowa’s nine crop districts and, from those recipients, one student will be selected to receive an additional $1,500. Scholarship applications are available at www.iasoybeans.com/Scholarships and request the following items: •A 650-word essay addressing “What role would you like to be playing in agriculture and/or the soybean industry in the five years following graduation?” •Three letters of recommendation •Submission of four copies of each document Additional details also have been provided to Iowa high school guidance counselors. Contact Mary Whitcomb at mwhitcomb@iasoybeans.com or 515-334-1027 with additional questions. FFA members earn Greenhand and Chapter FFA degrees AMANDA, Ohio — The Amanda-Clearcreek FFA Chapter awarded 58 members with their Greenhand and Chapter FFA Degrees at the January FFA meeting. The Greenhand FFA Degree is the first degree that a chapter can bestow upon its members. Members who obtained this degree this year were: Cassie Brewer, Shalyn Brown, Delaney Chester, Hailey Clark, Emma Dearth, Chandler Doersam, Sarah Doner, Garret Drake, Jalynn Fausnaugh, Jacob Green, Mattie Grace Hamilton, Chrystal Harvey, Mikayla Hicks, Trent Holbrook, Jacob Hudson, Triston Hutchinson, Eryn Jones, Cole Kleinline, Maya Knox, Lydia Lafferty, Riley McClure, Maggie Mettler, Michael Montoney, Elinor Paskins, Tyler Perkins, Carle Pieratt, Megan Porter, Kris Ryan, Vance Sharp, Avery Smith, Noah Smith, Tierra Tooill, Seth Turner, Katie Vickroy, Ashlynne Wells, Becca Woida and Dominick Zuck. The Chapter FFA Degree is the highest degree that a chapter can give to its members. This is an excellent step towards students gaining their State FFA Degree and then possibly the American FFA Degree. Members who received the Chapter FFA Degree this year were: Keaton Baldwin, Mitch Cassley, Chris Conrad, Kylie Friesner, Rachel Hizey, Lexie Kougher, Billy L’Huiller, Killian Lott, Corey Mullins, Joce Palombo, Cody Roark, Mallory Seitz, Austin Shannon, Austin J. Smith, Seth Stephenson, Sarah Streets, Ellie Tipple, Dylan Warga and Samantha Young. Co-op, churches, FFA chapters pack local, global meals Hagerstown, Ind. – Harvest Land Co-op employees and farmer-members partnered with 27 churches, 13 FFA chapters and various community organizations for the 4th annual Pack Away Hunger event Feb. 7. They packaged 160,488 nutritious meals to be distributed through Gleaner’s, Midwest Food Bank and 11 more local community food pantries. A portion of the meals will also be shipped globally through Mission Guatemala’s feeding programs (www.missionguatemala.com). The meals, which more than 700 volunteers prepared over five shifts, are formulated to provide a rich source of easily digestible protein, carbohydrates and vitamins needed by a malnourished body. They consist of high-quality white rice, fortified soy, a blend of six dehydrated vegetables and 21 vitamins and minerals. They’re packaged in fourteen-ounce bags. Harvest Land Co-op was the lead sponsor of Pack Away Hunger. Reid Hospital Foundation, DOT Foods, ECI Seeds, Indiana Pacers Foundation, Cornils Family Dentistry and Willie & Reds all gave corporate support. Foothills Farmers Co-op gives $6,000 to local FFA programs MARYVILLE, Tenn. — Foothills Farmers Cooperative recently awarded $500 to six local Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapters. The money, totaling $6,000, was given in partnership with lending cooperative CoBank as part of its Sharing Success program. Under “Sharing Success,” CoBank will match contributions by its cooperative customers to the nonprofit organizations of their choice on a dollar-for-dollar basis, from a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum of $5,000. Chapters that received funds included Greenback FFA, Heritage FFA, Sequoyah FFA, Sweetwater FFA, Tellico Plains FFA and William Blount FFA. “This is a tremendous gesture from one of the great grassroots organizations supporting youth in agriculture,” said Mitch Ingram, Sequoyah FFA advisor. “This contribution will assist in molding and developing some the greatest youth agricultural education has to offer.” Foothills Farmers Co-op, which recently merged with Valley Farmers Co-op to become Ag Central, organized a check presentation ceremony at their Maryville store. “We support FFA because we want a brighter future for the youth in our community,” said Brent Best of Foothills Farmers Co-op. “Our local chapters will use these contributions to attend state and national FFA conventions and purchase equipment and supplies for use in their program.”
Outstanding students awarded CME beef scholarships SAN ANTONIO, Texas — Ten outstanding college students were awarded $1,500 CME Beef Industry Scholarships Feb. 6 at the 2015 Cattle Industry Convention & NCBA Trade Show in San Antonio, Texas. The scholarship is sponsored by the CME Group and administered by the National Cattlemen’s Foundation. The overall essay winner, Laura Gorecki of Farewell, Neb., was also awarded a trip to the convention in San Antonio. The other scholarship winners are: •Jessica Beer, Texas A&M University •Sierra Jepson, The Ohio State University •Kacey Koester, North Dakota State University •Jenna Lansing, Iowa State University •Kierra Leddy, South Dakota State University •Maci Lienemann, University of Nebraska-Lincoln •Patrick Linnell, Colorado State University •Katie Miller, Blackhawk College (Ill.) •Kate Schaffer, Redlands Community College (Mo.) Both National Cattlemen’s Foundation and the CME Group have missions that stress commitment to the future of the cattle industry and continued recognition and support of outstanding youth in the beef community. |
