Five local students awarded scholarship from AgCredit
AgCredit has announced the winners of the 2024 scholarships awarded through the cooperative’s Joe Leiser Memorial Scholarship program.
Leiser served as the first president and chief executive officer of AgCredit, which is one of northern Ohio’s largest lenders, serving farmers, agribusinesses and rural homeowners. The annual program recognizes dependent family members of AgCredit voting stockholders who are enrolled in an agriculture-related field of study at a post-secondary educational institution. The cooperative has awarded scholarships to 40 deserving students over the past 10 years.
AgCredit congratulates the following students for earning scholarships for the 2024-2025 academic year:
- Anna Meyer of Wood County is a sophomore at The Ohio State University majoring in agricultural communications.
- Audra Miller of Seneca County is a freshman at The Ohio State University majoring in agribusiness with a minor in business/finance.
- Molly Downs of Sandusky County is a freshman at Iowa State University majoring in animal science with a minor in agribusiness.