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For the second year in a row, students from the University of Florida took first place at the Student Marketing Competition sponsored by Monsanto. The competition was held April 14-16 in Atlanta, GA.<\/p>\nFor the second year in a row, students from the University of Florida took first place at the Student Marketing Competition sponsored by Monsanto. The competition was held April 14-16 in Atlanta, GA.<\/p>\n
The University of Florida marketing team had\u00c2\u00a020 students involved with this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s project to market \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SunFruit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a grapefruit hybrid that\u00c2\u00a0does not interact with medications.\u00c2\u00a0The team spent the last several months doing market research, writing the marketing plan, and developing a presentation.<\/p>\n
The top six marketing teams this year were: First place, University of Florida; Second place, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Third place, Purdue University. Other finalists included: The Ohio State University; North Dakota State University; and University of Nebraska-Lincoln.<\/p>\n
Students decide on a project and develop a plan to successfully bring the product or service to the marketplace. In developing their marketing plan, students follow the same practices and principles used by today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s marketing professionals. Teams submit a written plan summary prior to the competition and then make a formal presentation of their marketing plan to a panel of judges at the competition. The judges\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 panel consists of marketing and agribusiness professionals.<\/p>\n
Overall,\u00c2\u00a030 student NAMA chapters participated in the marketing competition. The competition is part of the annual Agri-Marketing Conference. Over\u00c2\u00a0315 student members attended the conference.<\/p>\n
See below for a complete list of all Student Awards and Scholarship Winners.<\/p>\n
Scholarship Winners $1,000 Colle+McVoy\/New Holland Scholarship $1,000 MoKan NAMA Scholarship<\/strong> $1,000 ABEF Scholarships<\/strong> $500 ABEF Scholarships John Deere Signature Award Outstanding Student Chapter Outstanding Advisor<\/strong> Chapter Improvement Awards Outstanding Professional Outstanding Professional Chapter For the second year in a row, students from the University of Florida took first place at the Student Marketing Competition sponsored by Monsanto. The competition was held April 14-16 in Atlanta, GA. The University of Florida marketing team had\u00c2\u00a020 students involved with this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s project to market \u00e2\u20ac\u0153SunFruit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a grapefruit hybrid that\u00c2\u00a0does not interact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,36,277],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf","category-general","category-student-nama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n$4,000 Successful Farming\/Fergie Ferguson Scholarship<\/strong>
\nJenna Nicole Green, University of Florida<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Bret Herndon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln<\/p>\n
\nLacey Altwegg, Kansas State University<\/p>\n
\nLaura Witte, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
\nEllen Leibbrandt, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
\nSarah Butterfield, The Ohio State University<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Laura Larson, Iowa State University
\nJodi Marshall, University of Wisconsin-Platteville
\nDarrin Rahn, Iowa State University
\nBrenna House, Delaware Valley College<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>5th Place – University of Wisconsin-Platteville – $500
\n4th Place – University of Nebraska-Lincoln – $500
\n3rd Place – University of Wisconsin-Madison – $1,000
\n2nd Place – Iowa State University – $2,000
\n1st Place – University of Florida – $3,000<\/p>\n
\nFirst Place<\/strong> – Iowa State University
\nSecond Place<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0– New Mexico State University
\nThird Place<\/strong> – University of Wisconsin-Madison
\nFourth Place<\/strong> – Illinois State University<\/p>\n
\nDavid Englund – AIB College of Business<\/p>\n
\nChapter Management<\/strong> – <\/strong>University of Wisconsin-Madison
\nChapter Programs<\/strong> – Iowa State University
\nMembership Recruitment<\/strong> – Iowa State University
\nFundraising\/Financial Management<\/strong> – New Mexico State University
\nChapter Communications<\/strong> – Iowa State University
\nCareer Development<\/strong> – Iowa State University<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Andrea Brossard Martin, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
\nAndrea was nominated by University of Wisconsin-Madison.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Heartland NAMA\u00c2\u00a0Chapter
\nHeartland was nominated by Illinois State University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"