The USPOULTRY Foundation awarded a $5,600 student recruiting grant to Kansas State University. The university’s Department of Animal Sciences and Industry is the largest on the campus, with more than 1,100 students.
Kansas State University will use the grant funds in multiple ways, including promotion of the avian sciences club across campus, field trips to Cal-Maine Foods and Tyson Foods, FFA Career Development Events and poultry judging. These funds represent an evolution from telling students about the opportunities available to them, to involving them in the poultry industry and showing students the kind of roles they can expect to attain within the poultry industry.