2024 Scholarship Essay: Brooke Glaser

Grown for over 10,000 years, wheat is one of the world’s most important crops. Today, US farmers grow over 37 million acres of wheat a year. Wheat is grown much differently than it was when my father was growing up. When he was growing up, he remembers that some of the practices they used on…

2024 Scholarship Essay: Addison Perkins

Modern Challenges In Wheat Production By Addison Perkins There are a multitude of challenges facing today’s wheat farmer. Many of the struggles are consistent over generations, but in today’s world seem to hit on a bigger scale. The price of inputs, land being taken out of production for development, the affordability of labor, along with…