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Scholarship Recipients Honored at #Classic17

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NCGA committee chair Paul Taylor (center) with scholarship winners Izak Christensen, Michael Tupper, Rodrigo Mendoza, Kelsey Barnes and Rachel Stevens

The National Corn Growers Association and BASF have given five undergraduate or graduate students studying agriculture the William C. Berg Academic Excellence in Agriculture Scholarship. These passionate and motivated students were presented with their $1,000 scholarships at a ceremony during the recent 2017 Commodity Classic in San Antonio, Texas.

“Our industry needs a well-educated and dedicated group of future leaders to help create demand and feed our growing world,” said NCGA President Wesley Spurlock, a corn grower from Stratford, Texas. “These five scholarship winners will help this happen.”

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