America’s Farmers Grow Ag Leaders, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund, partners with farmers to award rural youth $1,500 scholarships to support their studies in ag-related fields after high school. Farmers play a fundamental role in the program by promoting this opportunity to local students and endorsing applications. In 2018, more than $500,000 in scholarships will be awarded to students across the country. Grow Ag Leaders scholarships are available in a variety of fields including: farming, agronomy, business, education, science, technology, communications, and more.

Students applying for a scholarship must live in an eligible county, be under the age of 23, be a high school senior or a full-time college student, have at least a 2.5 GPA, be pursuing or intending to pursue an ag-related degree in an eligible field of study and meet any and all other eligibility requirements on the FFA Website. For more details, see the rules. (LINK TO PROGRAM RULES)

Yes. Applicants are eligible to receive the scholarship once as a high school senior and once while enrolled in a post-secondary institution. No student may receive more than two scholarships during their academic career. For complete details, check out please visit the FFA website. 

Scholarship applications will be judged and selected by the National FFA Organization from a pool of eligible applicants based on the criteria and eligibility requirements set out on the FFA website. For more information, check out the FFA website at www.ffa.org/scholarships or our official program rules.

The program was created in response to farmer requests to keep rural youth involved in agriculture – and the Grow Ag Leaders scholarship program is just one way to provide opportunities to students to earn scholarships for post-secondary education in a wide variety of fields of study pertaining to agriculture.