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The Nebraska Cooperative Council Education Foundation has awarded 11 scholarships totaling $31,000 for the 2020-21 academic year to students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture at Curtis, and the University of Nebraska-Kearney.

The NCCEF scholarship program was initiated for the 1993-94 academic year, with funding from voluntary contributions from the agricultural cooperatives that are members of the Nebraska Cooperative Council.

Since the program’s inception, 209 scholarships totaling...