TOPEKA, Kan. – Each year, the Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture awards scholarships to college students studying in fields that benefit agriculture and rural Kansas. Forty-two recipients received $25,000 in scholarships for the 2019-20 school year.
Dixie Miller of Reno County is the winner of the $500 Godfrey and Emma Bahr Miller Agriculture Scholarship, a permanent, privately endowed scholarship fund for students attending a college in Kansas and majoring in a subject related to agronomy and conservation.
Sara Schlickau of Reno County received $1,000 for the K-State Agricultural Communications and Journalism Scholarship.
Twenty-five recipients received $500 scholarships. These students are attending a Kansas college with a Kansas Farm Bureau Collegiate chapter. Students must be a Farm Bureau Collegiate member.
Recipients from Hutchinson Community College included Chisum Grund from Wallace County and Katelynn Wilt from Reno County.