May 12, 2020
Legacy Ag Credit Awards $20,000 in Scholarships to Local Students
SULPHUR SPRINGS, Texas – Legacy Ag Credit awarded college scholarships to seven Northeast Texas high school seniors who excelled in academics and agriculture. The rural financing cooperative awarded one $5,000 scholarship and six $2,500 scholarships
All of the scholarship winners live in Legacy’s 10-county territory.
“These students represent the future of the agriculture industry. We’re proud to do our part to help them achieve their goals,” said Legacy Ag Credit CEO Derrell Chapman.
Awardees are as follows:
$5000 scholarship
Jentri Jackson
$2500 scholarships
Katy Erin Berry
Kaitlyn Castro
The University of Texas at Austin
Taylor Gattis
Brandon Cooper McNeil
County: Upshur
Audrey Scott Nolan
County: Upshur
Texas A&M University
Sydney Osborn
County: Van Zandt
Texas A&M University
Legacy Ag Credit is a borrower-owned lending co-op that finances agriculture, rural real estate, country homes, poultry farms, timber operations, ranches, young, beginning, small farms, and agribusiness. It is headquartered in Sulphur Springs and has branch offices in Canton, Gilmer, Kaufman, Longview and Sulphur Springs. Legacy is a part of the nationwide Farm Credit System.