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Twenty-three graduating
high school seniors will receive the 2008 “At The Heart Of A
Growing America” agricultural scholarship from 1st Farm
Credit Services.
This year, a total of 125 applications were received.
The $1,000 scholarships are
awarded to applicants pursuing an agriculture or
agriculture-related curriculum at a university, college or
community college. Selection is based on a combination of
academic achievement, community and agricultural youth
organization involvement, and a brief essay.
Recipients were selected
by committees composed of
agribusiness, youth, education and farm organization leaders.
The purpose of our scholarship program
is to assist deserving high school seniors to further their
education in an agriculture or agriculture-related field of
study, and to help promote agriculture as a growing field of
career opportunities.
More than $17,000 in
scholarships was awarded in the program, in addition to
$4,500 awarded annually in community college agricultural scholarship program
and $3,000 in the John Leatherbury Scholarship at Illinois
State University.
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