Iowa Soybean Association to award scholarships

The Iowa Soybean Association (ISA) is announced this year's winners of the ISA scholarship program, including 10 Ag scholarships and one culinary arts, food and nutrition or foodservice scholarship.  ISA will award $1,500 scholarships to 10 Iowa high school seniors who are pursuing a degree in an agriculture-related field.

 

"This year's winners plan to major in areas that include ag engineering, ag systems technology, animal sciences, ag business and ag education," said ISA President Dean Coleman. "They intend to enter careers as varied as agronomy at a cooperative to veterinary medicine, ag law and public relations for an ag-related company. By providing these scholarships, the Iowa Soybean Association shows it is looking to help provide agriculture a continuing pool of potential young leaders. It also shows that these young individuals, as well as the companies who help support our scholarship fund, believe in the future of agriculture in Iowa."

The following students were chosen as this year's ISA ag scholarship program winners:
Sarah Altenhofen from Wellman
Alex Cohrs from Logan
Schae Greenzweig from Charles City
Kayla Hasper from Montrose
Hannah Huser from Sac City
Kaci Keitzer from Mediapolis
Casey Sieren from Keota
Adam Striegel from What Cheer
Adelai Swanson from Galt
Kendra Wuthrich from Bloomfield

 

Adam Striegel was designated as the winner of the Keith and Virginia Smith Scholarship awarded annually by the Keith Smith and Virginia Smith Family Foundation. Dr. Keith Smith is a pioneer in soybean research who began his career in soybeans as the research director for the American Soybean Association. He has been responsible for much of the innovative applied science being conducted on soybeans throughout the United States. Although retired, Dr. Smith continues in directing soybean research for many of the soybean checkoff boards.

 

"These scholarships are vital to the continued success of agriculture in Iowa and hopefully the retention of these great students for Iowa agriculture," Coleman stated. "ISA would like to thank the sponsors of the ISA ag scholarship program, without whose help we would not be able to offer these awards."  Sponsors include Acme Printing; Archer Daniels Midland; Ag Processing Inc.; American Soybean Association; Cargill; Growmark Inc.; Iowa Soybean Association; Keith & Virginia Smith Foundation; Monsanto; Pioneer, A DuPont Company; Renewable Energy Group; Stine Seed Company; and West Bank.

 

In addition, a culinary arts, food and nutrition or foodservice scholarship in the amount of $1,000 will be awarded to Ashley Moyna from Elkader. She is currently a student at Iowa State University, majoring in culinary science, and plans to obtain a position as a test kitchen analyst. The culinary arts, food and nutrition or food service scholarship is personally funded by Linda Funk, executive director of The Soyfood Council, who serves as a food industry liaison and resource for soyfoods.