The application and scholarship deadline is Oct. 15, 2015.
Fifty-four board members will be elected or re-elected to fill open seats on the United States Potato Board.
New chairman was on the Potato Board’s International Marketing Committee and was a secretary/treasurer of the Northern Plains Potato Growers Association.
The funds will be used to help increase consumption of frozen, dehydrated, chip stock, table stock and seed potatoes around the world.
An Idaho grower was chosen to take the reins as chairman of the United States Potato Board through 2015.
The United States Potato Board is researching how to identify new opportunities and is taking a closer look at a younger audience.