WRMJ 102.3 FM in Aledo and Brownfield, Ag News for America, presented Cassie Bohnert and Keegan Bohnsack with the 2024 Illinois Ag Youth Award during the Rock Island County Fair 4-H Livestock Auction Friday night.
Cassie Bohnert works on her family’s dairy cow operation in rural East Moline. She is headed to Ames, Iowa, to study Dairy Science at Iowa State University.
Keegan Bohnsack was a 4-year member of the Rockridge FFA. He received the Tom Carlson Award in 2024. He will study Ag Business or Ag Science at Blackhawk College East Campus and then pursue his Bachelors degree in Illinois or Oklahoma.