2023 Scholarship Recipients 

Lynn Marie Tormoehlen, KY

My name is Lynne Marie Tormoehlen. I am from Springfield Kentucky and am the daughter of Greg Tormoehlen. My involvement with the Brown Swiss breed started at a very young age. My father was raised with Brown Swiss cows, so he raised me the same way. As a child I would always be outside helping my father feed the cows out in the field. When I started asking my father about a summer job, he suggested showing cattle. I thought he was crazy, but it included my two favorite things: my Brown Swiss cows and socializing with people. I decided to give it a shot for one summer and I loved every minute of it. I spent the next six summers rallying thirteen to fifteen head of dairy cattle (I expanded my breed interest to Guernsey and Milking Shorthorns) and traveling around the state of Kentucky to twenty or more county fairs, the state fair, and the North American. This experience really piqued my interest in Brown Swiss and the dairy industry. In high school, I took advantage of my 4-H ties and spent a year learning about the dairy industry through the Indiana Dairy Youth Academy. I learned so much from experiences with the Brown Swiss breed and the dairy industry as a whole. I decided an agriculture business major would make sense with my passion for agriculture and my business savvy. I am attending Dordt University for a Bachelor of Art in Agriculture Business with a minor in accounting. At Dordt I also am a member of the track and field team and the Agriculture Club. This summer I will be participating in an internship at Trans Ova Genetics in their accounting department to learn more about costs of genetic work in the dairy industry.