2025 Missouri Corn Scholarship

MISSOURI CORN SCHOLARSHIP

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The Missouri Corn Growers Association and Missouri Corn Merchandising Council will award a total of seven $1000 scholarships to college juniors and high school seniors for the 2025-26 school year. Guidelines for interested applicants are as follows:
1. Applicant must be a full-time college junior, having completed at least 60, but fewer than 90 semester credit hours, currently attending a four-year college or university with area of study in the field of agriculture. Scholarship funds will apply toward the senior year of expenses for each winner.
2. Applicant must be a Missouri resident from a Missouri farm or rural area.
3. Applications must be submitted no later than Feb. 14, 2025.
4. Application must include an official college transcript for proof of grade point average and enrollment.
5. Application must include at least one letter of recommendation from someone other than a relative.
6. Applications will be reviewed by the Missouri Corn Scholarship Committee. Scholarship recipients will be notified by mail on or before April 15, 2025.
7. Recipient must:
  - Provide Missouri Corn with a proof of enrollment and participation in the study of agronomy or related field from a college or university dated after Sept. 1, 2025 and received no later than Sept. 30, 2025 or risk forfeit of scholarship.
  - Assist at one of the following Missouri Corn events: golf tournaments, clay shoots, fairs, conferences or other approved event.
  - Once requirements are met, the scholarship will be sent directly to the recipient on or before Oct. 15, 2025. In the event any portion of the funding is not used by the recipient, the unused portion shall be returned to Missouri Corn.
8. Immediate relatives of any Missouri Corn Growers Association/Missouri Corn Merchandising Council board or staff member are ineligible to receive a scholarship.
Questions? Contact Missouri Corn Associate Director of Communications Hilary Black at (800) 827-4181 or hblack@mocorn.org.

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Please upload one letter of recommendation, a copy of your official transcript, and a headshot photo (to be used in press release if selected).
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Applications are due no later than Friday, February 14, 2025. If you have any questions, please contact Missouri Corn Associate Director of Communications Hilary Black.

Applicants will be notified of their status no later than April 15, 2025.
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