This is a big year for Navidad Valley CattleWomen (NVCW). It’s their 20th anniversary as a local of Texas CattleWomen. One of their priorities has always been supporting youth interested in pursuing careers in agriculture.
Since they awarded their first scholarship in 2005, Nav idad Valley CattleWomen have awarded over $90,000 in scholarships to graduating high school students from Fayette, Colorado and Lavaca counties.
For the first time, NVCW awarded collegiate scholarships totaling $2,000. Applications were received from young men and women who both had and had not received a scholarship from CattleWomen when they graduated from high school. Taiton Hudec, a 2020 graduate from Weimar High School, was one of these recipients.
Hudec is currently a junior at Texas A&M University studying Animal Science with a minor in Agronomy.
His involvement as a fourth generation producer began at his family's seed stock and club calf operation.
Today he dreams of doing research that will help producers increase efficiency and profit ability, respecting the land and the resources trusted to them. The second recipient is also an Aggie.
Gavin Kubala is also a junior at Texas A&M studying Animal Science, however his focus is Meat Science.
Kubala, a 2021 graduate of Schulenburg High School is currently on the TAMU 2024 Meat Judging Team and hopes to continue producing beef and perhaps one day own his own meat processing plant, supporting producers and helping feed his rural community.
Taiton Hudec, left, is the recipient of the first colle giate scholarship with Susie Shank of the NVCW Ways & Means Chair presenting the scholarship.
