{"id":141229,"date":"2021-03-22T06:54:53","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=141229"},"modified":"2021-03-22T06:54:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T11:54:57","slug":"farm-focus-offers-ag-related-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/03\/22\/farm-focus-offers-ag-related-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus offers ag-related scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Farm Focus Inc. was founded in 1974 to promote agriculture in Van Wert County and the surrounding area. It is its continued mission to assist county students through a scholarship program that will enable them to pursue a degree in an agriculture related field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"207\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Farm-Focus-logo-8-2014.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54879\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Farm Focus Inc. is offering a minimum of three scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,000 to high school seniors interested in majoring in an\u00a0Agricultural related program at a university, college, or technical school.<br>In\u00a0addition to seniors, full-time students already enrolled in an undergraduate program in agriculture are also eligible\u00a0to apply. This also means that a successful applicant from previous years can reapply again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Applicants must be Van Wert County residents, with a minimum grade point of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale. Scholarship funds will be submitted directly to the educational institution by Farm Focus Inc.\u00a0upon receipt of proof of enrollment or a copy of a tuition invoice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scholarship applications have been sent to all nine area high schools where Van Wert\u00a0County students may be enrolled, so contact a high school guidance\u00a0counselor, or FFA Instructor for your scholarship application.\u00a0<br>The application is available at the OSU Van Wert County Extension office at 1055 S. Washington St. in Van Wert or by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:FarmFocusScholarship@gmail.com\">FarmFocusScholarship@gmail.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The scholarship application is in a PDF file format and can be emailed or placed on a jump drive. Questions should be emailed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All completed applications must be emailed, mailed and postmarked or&nbsp;delivered in person no later than April 9 to the OSU Van Wert County Extension Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Farm Focus Inc. was founded in 1974 to promote agriculture in Van Wert County and the surrounding area. It is its continued mission to assist county students through a scholarship program that will enable them to pursue a degree in an agriculture related field.&nbsp; Farm Focus Inc. is offering a minimum of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-farm"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 15:41:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}