{"id":43621,"date":"2016-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/throlson-american-bison-foundation-now-accepting-scholarship-applications\/"},"modified":"2025-02-27T07:33:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T14:33:15","slug":"throlson-american-bison-foundation-now-accepting-scholarship-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalbison.org\/throlson-american-bison-foundation-now-accepting-scholarship-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Throlson American Bison Foundation Now Accepting Scholarship Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Westminster, CO (July 11, 2016) -The National Bison Association (NBA) has announced the 2015 Throlson American Bison Foundation Scholarship amid continued growth in consumer demand for healthy, natural bison meat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Throlson American Bison Foundation is named after its founder, Dr. Ken Throlson, DVM, a pioneer of the modern bison business and awards three outstanding college students with an interest in the burgeoning bison industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Throlson American Bison Foundation Scholarship program has been established to recognize, encourage and promote leadership among future bison industry professionals,&#8221; said Dave Carter, executive director of the NBA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In November 2016, the Throlson American Bison Foundation will award scholarships totaling, but not limited to, $9,000 to outstanding college junior, senior or graduate students studying fields related to the bison industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A minimum of $2,000 of the $9,000 amount will be awarded in the memory of Richard Zahringer to a student pursuing a degree in agriculture economics, ag-business, or accounting. Ideally this student will have future interest in livestock and specifically bison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications are available for download at the NBA&#8217;s website, <a title=\"www.bisoncentral.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bisoncentral.com\/\">www.bisoncentral.com<\/a>, on the Throlson Bison Foundation tab, or just click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bisoncentral.com\/about-nba\/throlson-american-bison-foundation\">here<\/a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applications must be completed and mailed or emailed to the NBA no later than Oct. 1, 2016.&nbsp; Recipient announcements will be made no later than Nov. 5, 2016.&nbsp; For more information, contact the NBA office at (303) 292-2833, or jim@bisoncentral.com.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The NBA also has a Junior membership for individuals ages 21 and younger that are interested in the bison community.&nbsp; NBA Junior Members can access member information on the website, receive discounted conference rates, consign animals to the Gold Trophy Show &amp; Sale held in Denver in conjunction with the National Western Stock Show, and receive a subscription to Bison World and the NBA newsletter, The Weekly Update.&nbsp; The Junior Membership is $50 annually.<br>Learn more at <a title=\"www.bisoncentral.com.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bisoncentral.com.%20%20%20\/\">www.bisoncentral.com.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Westminster, CO (July 11, 2016) -The National Bison Association (NBA) has announced the 2015 Throlson American Bison Foundation Scholarship amid continued growth in consumer demand for healthy, natural bison meat. &#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - 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