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ELLIS COUNTY – AgTexas Farm Credit Services awarded $21,000 in scholarships virtually from the AgTexas corporate office in Lubbock on Facebook Live.
The member-owned cooperative, which provides financial services to the agricultural community in 43 Texas counties, hosted a drawing for the scholarships at 4 p.m. on May 13.
“We are honoring some of the best and brightest young minds in Texas with this program,” said AgTexas Farm Credit CEO Tim McDonald.
“These students represent the next generation of agriculture in Texas and the United States. It’s our privilege to pay tribute to their achievements thus far and encourage them for the future.”
Outstanding 4-H and FFA high school students received prominent recognition for their dedication to agriculture through AgTexas Farm Credit Services’ 6th Annual Ag Youth Scholarship Program.
Here in the Central Texas Region, five (5) students each received a $1,000 scholarship.
Those students included two Ellis County residents – Brayden DeBorde (Ellis County 4-H) and Clayton Golden (Ellis County Shooting Sports 4-H) – along with Dakota Lindemulder (Arlington FFA), Kassidy Langley (Hico FFA) and Tres Pennington (Paradise FFA).
AgTexas awarded a total of $21,000 in scholarships among its three regions and has now presented nearly $150,000 through the program.
These 4-H and FFA programs help introduce many of their participants to agriculture, allowing students to learn and apply science and technology to make farming and ranching more productive and offer promising futures.
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