AgTexas Farm Credit recognizes AgYouth honorees
(Amarillo, TX) -- Outstanding 4-H and FFA high school students received prominent recognition for their dedication to agriculture through AgTexas Farm Credit Services’ 3rd Annual AgYouth Banquet at the new Embassy Suites in downtown Amarillo on Monday evening (April 23).
Nine (9) students were selected among the 36 honorees to each receive a $1,000 scholarship from AgTexas Farm Credit, which created the program. Those students are Hannah Crandall (Springlake-Earth FFA), Hydie Dyer (Nazareth FFA), Hope Herrera and Abbie Hunt (both of Farwell FFA), Haydon Miller and Payton Miller (both of Dimmitt FFA), Keenan Nixon (Floydada 4-H), Rori Phillips (Sudan FFA) and Macey Thurman (Canyon 4-H).
Honorees from the Friona area were Johnny Ojeda, Seth Ross Murphree, Bryce Bunker and Hadley White (all from Friona FFA), and Hope Herrera, Abbie Hunt, Carley Johnson and Alexis Olmos (all from Farwell FFA).
Of these, Hope Herrera from Farwell FFA and Rori Phillips from Sudan FFA each received a $1,000 AgYouth Scholarship through a random drawing.
AgTexas serves approximately 3,500 members in 43 counties through 13 offices, including Amarillo, Dimmitt, Dumas, Friona, Muleshoe and Plainview.
“Monday evening, we honored some of the best and brightest young minds in Texas with this program,” said AgTexas Farm Credit CEO Tim McDonald. He adds, “These students represent the next generation of agriculture in Texas and the United States. It’s our privilege to pay tribute to their achievements thus far and encourage them for the future.”
According to McDonald, the 4-H and FFA programs help introduce many of their participants to agriculture, allowing students to learn and apply science and technology to make farming and ranching more productive and offer promising futures.
“We are very pleased to have created the AgYouth of the Month program because it brings positive attention to young people who are investing in our state and nation as well as their own futures,” added McDonald. He adds, “We have increased last year’s number of scholarships to benefit more of these deserving students.”
The featured speaker was Jacey Snapp, a freshman at Texas Tech University and 2016-17 AgTexas AgYouth of the Month and scholarship recipient from Lubbock Cooper FFA. She shared the importance of agriculture in our economy and the value of making powerful connections in life.
About AgTexas Farm Credit Services: AgTexas is a rural lending cooperative, providing financing for real estate and operating capital, as well as insurance, leasing and cash management services for the Ag industry since 1934. Today, AgTexas serves approximately 3,500 members in 43 counties through 13 offices, including Amarillo, Dimmitt, Dumas, Friona, Muleshoe and Plainview. In the Panhandle, AgTexas serves Armstrong, Bailey, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Floyd, Hale, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Lamb, Moore, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Sherman and Swisher counties.
From left: Garth McDonald, AgTexas lender in Friona, Hadley White, Hope Herrera, Abbie Hunt and
AgTexas Farm Credit CEO Tim McDonald.
