Philip Morris International is appreciative to abutment the next bearing of leaders by accouterment scholarships to acceptance from tobacco-growing communities. After aggressive scholarship recipients graduate, they abide to accomplish a aberration in agronomics and their bounded communities. Now is the time for acceptable acceptance to administer for a PMI scholarship. Applications for 2010 are due Feb. 1, 2010 and are accessible to accouchement of growers who are allotment of PMI's International Tobacco Procurement (ITP) program. The affairs aims to abetment the families who accommodate us with high-quality tobacco for across markets An important ambition of the scholarship affairs is to advice sustain the communities area we do business by acknowledging the next bearing of leaders Farming is all I've anytime capital to do Agriculture is so aggressive now, the acreage absolutely is an agribusiness The PMI scholarship funds helped out a abundant deal The ITP Scholarship meant a lot to me because it helped financially, but aswell because we accession tobacco for PMI Today we've got two automated tobacco harvesters, and a conveyer arrangement to unload tobacco blade at our abating barns We absolutely strive for quality, to accommodate the best accessible tobacco for PMI. I accept above tobacco will consistently accept a home. It helped me out a lot The ITP Scholarship was a lot of money. My charge averaged $5,000 a year, and PMI covered a lot of of it I didn't accept to crop out as abounding apprentice loans. It gave me a footfall up if entering the business world. I ascendancy how we aftermath the fuel, and agreement with altered assembly methods in the lab Right now, I'm designing a beverage arrangement for our plant. A lot of the biofuel produced at the bulb has an end use in ag cars such as tractors and semis I'm actual beholden for the PMI scholarship. It helped put me through school It's a nice reward, and shows that PMI cares about the growers' accouchement and wants them to succeed. The values, the plan belief you apprentice are invaluable My abundant grandfathering Henry Johnson was a canton commissioner, endemic a dry appurtenances abundance and farmed in rural Johnston County My dad, H.M. Johnson, went beeline out of top academy aback to the farm And my mother is a CPA who has consistently maintained a full-time able job, and has aswell kept the acreage books. Then in the afternoons, she'd appear home and plan with my dad. Supporting families and deepening bounded communities is absolutely what we achievement to accomplish with the ITP Scholarship program. At Philip Morris International, we're appreciative to be associated with aggressive men and women like Davey, Ryan and Myra - scholarship recipients who are acutely authoritative a aberration in agriculture, their companies and their communities
Richmond, VA -- Since 2001, Philip Morris International (PMI) has provided scholarships to hundreds of acceptance from tobacco-growing communities. These scholarships are accessible to accouchement of growers who are allotment of PMI's International Tobacco Procurement (ITP) program. "The affairs aims to abetment the families who accommodate us with high-quality tobacco for across markets," says Lee Ryan, PMIM SA Director of Agricultural Programs.
Davey Ferrell, 20, a PMI scholarship almsman and contempo Virginia Tech graduate, works on his ancestors acreage in Wylliesburg, Va., growing 150 acreage of tobacco and 800 acreage of soybeans and aureate in affiliation with his father, Timmy, and brother, Kevin. Scholarships are accessible for two-year vocational/technical degrees and bachelor's degrees, and are not bound to agriculture-related fields. "An important ambition of the scholarship affairs is to advice sustain the communities area we do business by acknowledging the next bearing of leaders," says Ryan.
A Leader in Tobacco Farming
"Farming is all I've anytime capital to do," says Davey Ferrell, 20, a PMI scholarship almsman and contempo Virginia Tech graduate. Ferrell is already aback home on the ancestors acreage in Wylliesburg, Va., growing 150 acreage of tobacco and 800 acreage of soybeans and aureate in affiliation with his father, Timmy, and brother, Kevin. They aswell accession cattle.
"Agriculture is so aggressive now, the acreage absolutely is an agribusiness," Ferrell says. "You accept to abatement assembly costs, access yields, administer activity costs and advance efficiencies - all while bearing a above product. A acceptable administration action is key. I went to a acreage admission university, cerebration a two-year ag technology amount will advice a lot on our acreage from a administration standpoint.
"The PMI scholarship funds helped out a abundant deal," he says. "Virginia Tech is a accompaniment school, and every year they've had to accession charge to accord with accompaniment account cuts.
"The ITP Scholarship meant a lot to me because it helped financially, but aswell because we accession tobacco for PMI," says Ferrell, a fourth-generation tobacco farmer. Now he's putting his apprenticeship to plan mechanizing the family's tobacco operation and convalescent on-farm efficiencies.
"Today we've got two automated tobacco harvesters, and a conveyer arrangement to unload tobacco blade at our abating barns," Ferrell adds. "We absolutely strive for quality, to accommodate the best accessible tobacco for PMI. I accept above tobacco will consistently accept a home."
From the Tobacco Barn to Biodiesel
Now a action architect for Southern Indiana Biofuels in Newburgh, Ind., Ryan Simpson is aswell a above PMI scholarship recipient. He accustomed funds anniversary year for four years through the ITP Scholarship affairs to access an engineering amount from Western Kentucky University.
"It helped me out a lot," says Simpson, who's currently advancing a master's amount in actinic engineering. "I don't appear from a actual affluent family, and they couldn't accommodate abundant banking abetment for school.
"The ITP Scholarship was a lot of money. My charge averaged $5,000 a year, and PMI covered a lot of of it," Simpson adds. "I didn't accept to crop out as abounding apprentice loans. It gave me a footfall up if entering the business world."
Now that he's in the business world, Simpson is authoritative biodiesel from decay vegetable oil and chicken tallow. "I ascendancy how we aftermath the fuel, and agreement with altered assembly methods in the lab," he explains. "Right now, I'm designing a beverage arrangement for our plant."
Although Simpson's ancestors awash their tobacco acreage a few years ago, they still accession beasts and abound 600 acreage of blah in Metcalfe County, just east of Glasgow, Ky. Simpson still feels affiliated and complex in agriculture. "A lot of the biofuel produced at the bulb has an end use in ag cars such as tractors and semis," he says.
Small Town Girl, Big City Career
Previous ITP Scholarship almsman Myra Johnson Parker is now a CPA with Ernst & Young, LLP in Raleigh, N.C. She was accepted funds every year for four years as she pursued a bachelor's amount in business administering from the University of North Carolina. Parker aswell accustomed a PMI scholarship for her master's amount in accounting from UNC.
"I'm actual beholden for the PMI scholarship. It helped put me through school," Parker says. "It's a nice reward, and shows that PMI cares about the growers' accouchement and wants them to succeed."
Parker considers herself adored to accept developed up on the family farm. "The values, the plan belief you apprentice are invaluable," she adds. "It teaches you character."
Parker's ancestors has been agriculture for several generations. "My abundant grandfathering Henry Johnson was a canton commissioner, endemic a dry appurtenances abundance and farmed in rural Johnston County," Parker says. "Then my grandfather, Dennis, took over the farm. My grandmother had a case job, but was still actual complex on the farm. During the summers, she'd drive the barter carriage the tobacco from the acreage to the barn.
"My dad, H.M. Johnson, went beeline out of top academy aback to the farm," Parker adds. "And my mother is a CPA who has consistently maintained a full-time able job, and has aswell kept the acreage books. Then in the afternoons, she'd appear home and plan with my dad." Although the ancestors has not developed tobacco for two summers, they abide to abound corn, soybeans and hay. They aswell accession beef cattle.
Today, Parker and her bedmate abide abutting to her parents' acreage and appear the Hickory Grove Advent Christian Church. They aswell advance at fundraising contest for the Strickland's Crossroads Volunteer Fire Department, area her dad serves as blaze chief.
"Supporting families and deepening bounded communities is absolutely what we achievement to accomplish with the ITP Scholarship program. At Philip Morris International, we're appreciative to be associated with aggressive men and women like Davey, Ryan and Myra - scholarship recipients who are acutely authoritative a aberration in agriculture, their companies and their communities," says Ryan.
Scholarship applications for 2010 are due Feb. 1, 2010. For added advice about the ITP Scholarship program, acquaintance your bounded PMI accepting station.
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