Scholarships

This year, the Missouri Corn Growers Association and Missouri Corn Merchandising Council will award seven deserving college juniors and high school seniors $1000 scholarships for the 2025-2026 school year.

Applicants must submit an application form, official high school or college transcript and at least one letter of recommendation.

High school applicants must be Missouri residents from a Missouri farm or rural area. They must also plan to attend a two-year or four-year college or university and major in an agriculture field. The scholarship funds will apply toward the freshman year of college expenses for high school senior winners.

College applicants must also be Missouri residents from a Missouri farm or rural area, and currently be a junior, having completed at least 60, but fewer than 90 semester credit hours, enrolled in a four-year college or university majoring in an agriculture field during the time of application. The scholarship funds will apply toward the senior year of expenses for college junior winners.

Upon selection, all recipients must assist in staffing one of the following Missouri Corn events to complete the scholarship requirements: golf tournaments, clay shoots, fairs, conferences or other events designated by Missouri Corn.

MFA Foundation Scholarships are offered to graduating high school seniors where the following conditions are met:

1. Applicant is a child or grandchild (including step) of a member of an MFA Scholarship Sponsor participating in the MFA Foundation and sponsoring a scholarship.
2. Applicant must be a resident of Missouri, Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma or Tennessee.
3. There must be an MFA Scholarship Sponsor within a fifty (50) mile radius of where the applicant is located.

The scholarship may be used to pursue any course of study that leads toward an academic degree such as a Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science or Associate’s Degree at an accredited college or university. Recipients must be enrolled in school full time by Sept. 1 or the funds will be allocated to the runner-up. The scholarship is applied toward the student’s freshman year of college. It is not renewable.

National Farmers launched scholarship program more than two decades ago to invest in the future of agriculture-oriented young people. Farm Kids for College Scholarship winners have pursued degrees in agronomy, agribusiness, dairy science, animal science, farm business and more. The adventures agriculture provides are many, and the Farm Kids for College contest helps students in their college pursuits at four-year colleges or technical and community colleges.

High school seniors planning to earn an agricultural degree from an accredited college or university are eligible, and must submit materials by Feb. 18, 2025. Based upon competitive selection, National Farmers will announce three national scholarship winners April 15, 2025. Three winners will receive either $2500, $1500, or $1000 toward their freshman year in college. State winners receive $500.

Each year the Missouri Pet Breeders Association awards 4 scholarships in the amount of $500.00 each to students pursuing a degree or certification in fields related to and supportive of agriculture.

Eligibility Requirements
• Each recipient must be enrolled as a full-time student (12 hours minimum per semester) starting in the fall of the year the scholarship is awarded.
• Applicant must have a minimum academic GPA of 2.5 or higher.
• Applicants receiving their high school degree through the HiSET program must be in the upper 50th percentile on a standardized equivalency exam.
• Individuals previously awarded this scholarship may reapply if they meet the eligibility requirements.
• Applicants must submit a letter of recommendation from a school teacher, counselor or administrator.
• Each applicant must submit a copy of his/her high school transcript or HiSET diploma.
• Applicants must submit an essay of 500 words or more, telling about themselves and their goals for the future.
• Applicants must submit the enclosed scholarship application with a current photo.

Scholarship Award
The award will be paid directly to the winning student’s account at the school he/she will be attending upon verification of enrollment. Upon accepting the scholarship, the student agrees to remain enrolled full time, and maintain a satisfactory grade point average.

FCS Financial believes in the future of our next generation. For that reason, the Board of Directors began the FCS Financial Scholarship Program in 2004 to support higher education for children or grandchildren of FCS Financial customers. Each year up to 35 scholarships in the amount of $2,000 each are provided to eligible Missouri high school seniors. Since its inception, more than $875,000 and 705 scholarships have been awarded through the program.

Ozark Electric Cooperative provides 20, $500.00 scholarships to current graduating seniors attending a public or private high school or being homeschooled within Ozark Electric Cooperative’s nine-county service area: Barry, Christian, Dade, Greene, Jasper, Lawrence, Newton, Polk, or Stone counties. Students do not have to be a member of Ozark Electric to be eligible.