NGMA 2024 Scholarship Awarded to Rylee Brown

Rylee Brown of West Plains, Missouri, is a junior at the University of Arkansas, completing her undergraduate studies in agriculture, majoring in horticulture, landscape, and turf sciences. Brown has a special interest in tomato production, breeding, and preserving heirloom tomato varieties and other vegetables and flowers. She plans to continue her education in graduate school with a career goal of working in greenhouse production or seed industries.

“This scholarship is greatly appreciated by myself and my family,” Brown said. “As a junior at the University of Arkansas, I will be able to use this scholarship to help me finish out the last two years of my undergraduate education.”

The National Greenhouse Manufactures Association Scholarship targets students majoring in horticulture and bioengineering or the equivalent and are at least a junior at an accredited four-year college maintaining a 3.0 GPA.