(Amarillo, TX) – On Monday evening (May 9), AgTexas Farm Credit Services awarded $10,000 in scholarships at its Seventh Annual AgTexas AgYouth Scholarship awards program held at the Embassy Suites in downtown Amarillo at 550 S. Buchanan Street.
AgTexas honored 10 outstanding graduating high school seniors who have excelled in their 4- H and FFA chapters, each with a $1,000 scholarship. The $10,000 is part of the total $24,000 in scholarships being awarded through the education initiative that AgTexas created seven years ago.
The students are Davey Crandall (Springlake-Earth FFA), Tim Ally (Friona FFA), Dayson Schacher (Nazareth FFA), Hannah Simpson (Dimmitt FFA), Landon Bogan (Bushland FFA), Jett Bradford (Carson County 4-H/ Panhandle FFA), Charlee Chambers (Abernathy FFA), Annie Metzler (Cotton Center FFA), Tanner Owen (Canyon FFA/Canyon 4-H), and Kaitlyn Vega (Floydada FFA).
In addition to the 10 Amarilloarea $1,000 scholarship winners, each one of the 30 regional honorees received a $100 gift card a certificate.
Lamb County area honorees in addition to the scholarship recipients were Clayton Stevenson (Springlake-Earth FFA) and Kyle Blount (Olton FFA).
The program has awarded over $160,000 to graduating seniors in the markets where AgTexas has offices – including Amarillo, Dumas, Hereford, and Plainview in the Panhandle Region.
“We are honoring some of the best and brightest young minds in Texas with this program,” says AgTexas Farm Credit CEO Tim McDonald. He adds, “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.”
McDonald continues, “We’ve missed being in person with our banquets for the past two years due to the pandemic. We love celebrating in the same room with our honorees and their parents. Graduation season is a special time in their lives, and we look forward to sharing this occasion together.”
Outstanding 4-H and FFA high school students received prominent recognition for their dedication to agriculture. 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 them promising futures.
“We are very pleased to have created the Ag Youth of the Month program because it brings positive attention to young people who are investing in our state and nation as well as their own futures,” concluded McDonald.
AgTexas serves approximately 3,500 members in 43 counties through its Panhandle, South Plains, and Central Texas regions.