{"id":13585,"date":"2025-07-03T12:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T16:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/?p=13585"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T20:52:36","slug":"spring-agribusiness-graduate-earns-farm-credit-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/spring-agribusiness-graduate-earns-farm-credit-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring agribusiness graduate earns Farm Credit scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"654\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-654x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Mouhamadou Diack \" class=\"wp-image-13586\" style=\"width:215px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-654x1024.jpeg 654w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-192x300.jpeg 192w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-768x1203.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-981x1536.jpeg 981w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-1308x2048.jpeg 1308w, https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/141\/2025\/07\/Mouhamadou-Diack-Todd-edited-Copy-scaled.jpeg 1635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 654px) 100vw, 654px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Recent graduate <strong>Mouhamadou Diack<\/strong> was among two UMES students who received $5,000 scholarships from the <a href=\"https:\/\/fcfoundationforag.org\/\">Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement<\/a> for the 2024-25 academic year. The funds help awardees continue their studies and intent to pursue agriculture-related careers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diack, an agribusiness management major, came to UMES as a transfer student after earning an associate\u2019s degree from Montgomery College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe transition came with many financial challenges, but the Farm Credit Scholarship was an incredible support. It significantly reduced my student loan burden and helped me navigate those hardships,\u201d Diack said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award also gave Diack, whose heritage stems from Senegal, West Africa, an awareness of \u201cthe strength of the community that surrounds me.\u201d With degree in hand, he plans on continuing his education in precision agriculture and agricultural extension to \u201cbetter serve both local and international farming communities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Farm Credit Foundation has been a valued partner in supporting agricultural workforce development through scholarships, creating a pipeline of industry professionals,\u201d said Dr. Moses T. Kairo, dean of UMES\u2019 School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Gail Stephens, agricultural communications, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, School of Agricultural and Natural Sciences, UMES Extension, <\/em><a href=\"mailto:gcstephens@umes.edu\"><em>gcstephens@umes.edu<\/em><\/a><em>, 410-621-3850.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo submitted.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent graduate Mouhamadou Diack was among two UMES students who received $5,000 scholarships from the Farm Credit Foundation for Agricultural Advancement for the 2024-25 academic year. The funds help awardees continue their studies and intent to pursue agriculture-related careers. Diack, an agribusiness management major, came to UMES as a transfer student after earning an associate\u2019s&#8230;<span class=\"cpschool-read-more-link-holder\"><a class=\"btn btn-basic cpschool-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/sans-monthly-digest\/spring-agribusiness-graduate-earns-farm-credit-scholarship\/\">Read more <span class=\"sr-only\">Spring agribusiness graduate earns Farm Credit scholarship<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","wds_primary_category":40,"footnotes":""},"categories":[163,40],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-13585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-july-2025","category-sans-monthly-digest"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13585"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wwwcp.umes.edu\/sans\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=13585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}