2025 Wheat Scholarship Essay: Mason Orem

Barriers to FarmingSome of my earliest childhood memories are playing with toy tractors on the living room floor. My brother and I would turn the entire room into fields, reenacting what we grew up knowing a successful farm looked like. As we grew older, our play evolved into reality, and we found ourselves operating real…

2024 Wheat Scholarship Essay: Jake Bingaman

Going Against the Grain You wake up at 6 a.m. on a warm morning in early August, grab your lunch, and get the machines ready for the day. You jump in the combine, and the next eight to ten hours are going to be spent driving in a straight line for 400 yards, turning around,…