2025 Scholarship Essay: Natasha Lane

Growing the Next Generation Family farms currently dominate the farming industry, in 2017 they made up 96% of all U.S. farms; however, this number is slowly decreasing. Since 2012 the number of family farms has seen a decrease of 4% and there does not appear to be a stop in this trend. This is problematic…

2025 Wheat Scholarship Essay: Bailey Coelsch

Cost of Production vs Product Value A very common issue between farmers and the market the past few years has been that production costs have skyrocketed as the product values have continued to decrease. Farmers have to include costs of fertilizers, seed, chemicals, and labor. Most farmers are running into the issue of not making…