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Oklahoma Soybean Board selects Scholarship recipient!

Congratulations to Roy Grant!

Roy Grant was raised on a family farm and ranch just east of Muskogee, OK. At Devil’s Peak Ranch, Grant’s family farms roughly 500 acres of primarily wheat and double crop with soybeans. Grant’s family also run about 100 head of cows for our cow-calf operation. Grant’s background and family is something that he is very proud of. Grant looks forward to one day being able to continue his family tradition of living and working on the farm. Throughout growing up, Grant developed a passion for agriculture. His time in the Muskogee FFA Chapter continued to feed that fire and passion for the industry.

When it came time to decide where to go to college Grant didn’t have a hard time deciding. Oklahoma State University was the only university he applied too. Grant had little to no idea what he wanted to major in, which lead him to pick Agribusiness. Grant’s mom convinced him to apply to the Living Learning Program for the college, known as the Freshmen in Transition program. In the FIT program Grant was housed with around 100 other college of agriculture freshmen, many of whom would become his close friends. In the program, he met many of the faculty and staff of the Ferguson College of Agricultural and developed meaningful relationships with his fellow students. This experience led Grant to become a student academic mentor for the FIT program.

Throughout Grant’s sophomore year he became more engaged within the Ferguson College of Agriculture. By the end of Grant’s sophomore year, he was a part of the Ferguson College of Agriculture Student Council, the Agronomy Club, as well as a student worker for Dr. Arnall. Grant enjoyed go to the Agronomy Club Convention in Salt Lake City, Utah and participating in all the Homecoming events with Ferguson College of Agriculture Student Council. Grant also enjoyed traveling around the state of Oklahoma and doing research with the soil fertility crew.

When time came to enroll for Grant’s senior year, he remembers not having time to sit down with Dr. Ferrell, his advisor, to go over classes. Over countless emails, the two realized that Grant had the ability to finish a semester early. With the realization that he could be graduated in 6 months, Grant decided it was time to think about his future. Nothing really jumped out in front of Grant and there was a big part of him that wasn’t ready to be done with the OSU. Grant’s graduate student friends were endlessly promoting OSU’s graduate school leading Grant to attend graduate school.

One day before graduation, Grant received a phone call from Dr. Clary that was not expected. Grant was selected as the top graduate for the Ferguson College of Agriculture for the December 2022 graduating class. It was an honor and a privilege to recognized in such a way and to get to represent his friends graduating alongside him. Graduation was a day Grant will never forget. Now Grant is a graduate student, pursuing a Master of Science in Plant and Soil Science . Grant is continuing to grow his passion of agriculture through doing research here in his home state. Through the support of Grants family and friends, like the Oklahoma Soybean Board, he gets to come to work every day and do the things he loves to do.

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