Source: Spencer Chase, AGRI-PULSE, 12/7/16

A plan to increase scholarship opportunities to a broader array of agricultural students received bipartisan commendations at a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday.The bill - Funding for Student Scholarships for the 1890s Land-Grant African American Colleges and Universities Act (H.R. 6020) - would create five years' worth of scholarship funding at $1 million per year for students pursuing food and ag careers at 19 universities across the country. 

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