Deschutes County Farm Bureau names scholarship winners

The Deschutes County Farm Bureau is proud to announce the recipients of its 2016 scholarship program.

Three students were awarded $1,000 scholarships and one received a $1,500 scholarship.

Congratulations to Lauren Riback ($1,500), Christian Lisignoli ($1,000), Cody Nance ($1,000), and Andrew Stengel ($1,000). All students are from Deschutes County Farm Bureau member families.

Any student who applied for a scholarship this year can reapply next year. The 2017 scholarship information will be posted at oregonfb.org/scholarships next year.

The state’s largest general farm organization, Oregon Farm Bureau (OFB) is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization representing the interests of the state’s farmers and ranchers in the public and policymaking arenas. First established in Oregon in 1919, Farm Bureau is organized in all 36 counties and has 7,000 member families that are professionally engaged in agriculture.

Deschutes County Farm Bureau represents 2,733 farm and ranch families.