The AgTrust Farm Credit is the title sponsor of these contests. This was the fifth year of the contests at Eastern NMSF. The contests are also held at New Mexico State Fair, and at Southern New Mexico State Fair. Thanks to their generosity, this year we reached a milestone – since beginning these contests, we have now awarded over $100,000 of scholarships.

One of the neat features of these contests is they open up fair participation to a wider swath of kids. Many children love the fair, but might not be able to have an animal project. By picking an agricultural topic they are interested in, and doing a speech or a science fair, kids have a chance to compete. This is important, it’s really only about 1% of the population that lives on a farm, but more than 10% of the population works in th

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