Young Story County ag entrepreneurs become finalists for Iowa Farm Bureau award
Ames Tribune What started as a "quarantine project" for Iowa State senior Danielle Youngblut blossomed into a sunflower business and became one of two Story County finalists for a statewide agriculture business award. Youngblut's business, Gravel Road Sunflowers, and Iowa State alum and Ames resident Ray Schmidt's business, Farm Story Meats, qualified as finalists for the second annual "Grow Your Future Award." The two both got their start as student entrepreneurs. "It just brought a little bit more happiness to me," Youngblut said. "It gave me a project that I could work on, it gave me g...