North Carolina Farm Bureau President Larry Wooten (back) congratulates Polk County students Andrew Suber-Brown, Caley Modlin and Mackenzie McCool (from left to right) for earning a certificate of completion for participating in the organization’s Institute for Future Agricultural Leaders (IFAL). The program assists exceptional rising high school seniors from across the state in exploring the wide-variety of agricultural-related college majors available at the state’s two land-grant universities — sNorth Carolina A&T State University and North Carolina State University. (photo submitted by Samantha Meekins)