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Anthony Agueda, puerility photo.
Anthony Agueda recalls the Christmas mornings of his puerility — spent moving connected his family’s dairy workplace with his siblings, cousins, uncles, begetter and grandfather. “Cows, and agriculture, successful general, necessitate around-the-clock care,” Agueda said. “It isn’t a job, it’s a mode of life.”
Located successful Stanislaus County, Alberto Dairy has been successful Agueda’s household for 3 generations.
Agueda said, “My gramps immigrated present astatine 19 from the Azores islands successful Portugal, with thing but his suitcase. He worked 3 jobs successful agriculture and went backmost aft 5 years, to wed my grandmother. They moved backmost to America and started the dairy successful 1981.”
Agueda and his household person maintained a adjacent narration arsenic they’ve worked unneurotic to tally the household farm. It was Agueda’s gramps who taught him however to decently provender cows and his begetter who taught him astir cattle care.
When Agueda was notified helium had been selected arsenic 1 of the recipients of this year’s CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement, his grandparents were the archetypal radical helium shared the quality with.
Established successful 1984, the CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement is the California State University’s highest designation for students, awarding superior world performance, idiosyncratic accomplishments and assemblage service.
Agueda volition beryllium recognized by the California State University strategy arsenic 1 of 23 students (one from each campus) to person this award, astatine a ceremonial ceremonial astatine the CSU Chancellor’s bureau successful Long Beach astatine astir 4:15 p.m. connected Sept. 24.
Agueda is completing his last twelvemonth of undergraduate studies astatine Fresno State, majoring successful cultivation business.
While a student, Agueda has been progressive successful the cultivation community, serving with Fresno State’s Agricultural Business Club and Dairy Science Club and California Dairy Leaders Program, arsenic good arsenic volunteering with Stanislaus County Farm Bureau and California Milk Advisory Board.
Through his unpaid work, Agueda has hosted virtual dairy workplace tours for students nationwide and coordinated beverage drives during Hunger Action Month for 5 years, personally delivering thousands of gallons of beverage to section nutrient banks to enactment nutritional needs of Valley children.
“I’m truly arrogant to correspond Fresno State and the cultivation assemblage with this award,” Agueda said. “It feels important due to the fact that we travel from specified an agriculturally delicate region.”
“I americium honored to unrecorded retired [my grandparents’] dream, and beryllium that the immense hazard they took has grown into unthinkable things.”
After graduating, Agueda plans to oversee concern operations astatine Alberto Dairy.
He said, “Farmers crossed the authorities are making large strides successful sustainable farming techniques and talking astir however we tin instrumentality that and trim pollution. My extremity is to proceed to marque the dairy a net-zero operation, and we’re not acold from obtaining that, actually.”
In the meantime, Agueda volition beryllium coordinating a beverage thrust with the Fresno State Dairy Science Club passim October. Through the beverage drive, Fresno State volition vie with assorted collegiate cultivation programs successful the Intercollegiate Give-A-Gallon Challenge, to spot who tin stitchery and administer the astir beverage to their community.
On Oct. 15, beverage donations tin beryllium dropped disconnected astatine the Gibson Farm Market betwixt 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
For much accusation connected each CSU Trustee Award recipients, sojourn the CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement website.
