2024 Scholarship Essay: Luke McGourty

Wheat: Family Ties By Luke McGourty Growing, harvesting and selling wheat has always been an important part in the success of ourfamily farm. I grew up on our family farm watching my dad and grandpa work long hard hours in thefield. I help them plant, irrigate and harvest our wheat and other commodities. I have…

2024 Scholarship Essay: Grace Cloughton

Struggles Within Wheat Farming By Grace Cloughton There are an abundant amount of struggles within wheat farming. Some of the strugglesinclude mother nature, input and output prices, equipment costs, technology, the government’soutrageous laws, land values, and farmers’ mental health. In the following paragraphs I willoutline and discuss some of the struggles above within the wheat…