Many of Kentucky's farm organizations offer scholarships to students interested in studying agriculture and related fields, distributing more than $300 thousand annually. More than $2 Million in scholarships are distributed annually to students in agriculture focused pathways. Check with each organization for the latest information. This list does not include scholarships and assistance provided by each of the post-secondary institutions.

NEWS (7/18/2024) KHEAA offering full-ride scholarships for students in trade careers

The Boyd Caterpillar Scholarship - “The BOYD CAT scholarship is an award provided by BOYD CAT and administered by KCTCS. Selected high school senior(s), graduates, or post-secondary students and receive scholarship awards to pursue a post-secondary diploma in diesel engine and/or heavy equipment technology at selected KCTCS programs.” Application

Agribusiness Association of Kentucky provides four $1,000 scholarships to incoming freshmen and current college students studying agriculture or an agriculture-related field. 
Deadline: March 31. Visit kyagbusiness.org for more information

Agriculture Future of America has scholarships for seniors and undergraduates.

Don Halcomb Memorial Scholarship for Community Leadership in Agriculture offers two $1,000 scholarships for Kentucky students either entering college or in a current post-secondary program studying agriculture or a related field. The school does not need to be in Kentucky. Administered by the Kentucky Small Grain Growers Association. Deadline: March 1. Application information

Farm Credit Mid-America awards $1,000 scholarships to college bound students who are children or grandchildren of Farm Credit Mid-America customers majoring in agriculture or pursuing agriculture or rural community related careers. Deadline: December 31. Application Information

George H. Martin Memorial Agriculture Scholarship presented by the Kentucky Soybean Association awards $1,000 to children and grandchildren of their members pursuing a degree in agriculture or a related field. Deadline: February 1. Application Information

Independence Bank Agriculture Scholarship - $5,000. Must be a senior who attends high school or lives in Calloway, Daviess, Franklin, Hancock, Henderson, Hopkins, Jefferson, McCracken, McLean, Warren or Webster County, in addition to criteria listed under specific scholarships. Several other non-agriculture scholarships available. Deadline: February 20. Contact: Lauren Patton, at 270.686.1776 or lpatton@1776bank.com, www.1776bank.com 

​Kentucky Association of Conservation Districts Auxiliary sponsors three $1,000 scholarships each year. The George Crafton Scholarship is for graduating high school seniors, the Natural Resource Scholarship is for college students and the Betty Barrick Non-Traditional Scholarship is for college students who are at least 25 years old. Those applying for the scholarship will need to be qualified young men and women that are interested in agriculture and natural resources fields. Deadline: March 1. Application Information

Kentucky Association of Agricultural Educators Scholarship for High School Seniors – Link for more info

Kentucky Association of Agricultural Educators Scholarship for Student Teachers – Link for more info

Kentucky Cattlemen's Association Freshman Scholarships - KCA provides five $1,500 scholarships to student members or children of member families. Applicants must also plan to major in agriculture or an agriculture-related subject. Deadline: March 31. Application Information

Kentucky Corn Growers Association is offering two $1,000 scholarships to high school seniors and two $2,000 to a current college student who is studying agriculture or a related field. Those applying to a trade school are eligible. Eligibility is also limited to KyCorn member families, but an interested student or parent may join the association.  Deadline: March 1. Application information.

Kentucky Equine Education Project/Race for Education Scholarship - The Race For Education Scholarship is available to a Kentucky student pursuing a field of study in the equine, animal science or agricultural industry and/or whose family is employed in the equine industry. Up to $5,000 per year. Deadline: May 1. Application Information

Kentucky Farm Bureau  will award county and state college scholarships to high school seniors pursuing a four-year course of study. Included in this list are the Sam Moore Scholarship for a student pursuing veterinary medicine and Young Farmer Scholarships, among many others. 575 scholarships were awarded in 2024. Deadline: February 28. Application Information

Kentucky Pork Producers provides $500 scholarships to students who are from a member family and actively involved in production or promotion of Kentucky pork. Deadline: March 1. Application information

Kentucky Poultry Federation is offering up to four $1,000 college scholarships to children of Kentucky poultry company employees and Kentucky Poultry Federation members. Deadline: June 30. Application information

Kentucky State University 1890 Scholarships Program - The purpose of the 1890 Scholarships Program is to provide scholarships to support undergraduate students at the 1890 land-grant institutions, resulting in baccalaureate degrees in the food and agricultural sciences and related fields. Kentucky State University is offering this scholarship to outstanding students at entering the institution to pursue and complete baccalaureate degrees in the food and agricultural sciences and related fields that would lead to a highly skilled food and agricultural systems workforce. Apply

Kentucky Women in Agriculture Scholarship: $1,000. Must be a Kentucky female resident and a junior, senior or graduate student at a Kentucky college or university and plan to work in agriculture. Deadline: June 30. info@kywomeninag.com or visit www.kywomeninag.com. 

Louisville Ag Club Scholarships: The Louisville Agricultural Club will award three college scholarships for the current school year to students studying agriculture in Kentucky or Indiana. Students must live in Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, Shelby, Spencer, and Trimble counties in Kentucky and Clark, Floyd, and Harrison counties in Indiana. The scholarships awarded are as follows: Kamin Family Scholarship, Corley Brown Memorial Scholarship, and Charles Keen Memorial Scholarship.  All three are for $4000 each, $1,000 each year over four years. All application materials must be uploaded to the online application by April 1, 2023. If you have any questions, email Bryce Roberts at bryce.roberts@uky.edu or call him at 502-477-2217.

Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has a Career and Technical Education Program. The CTE brochure has information about eligibility and how to apply.

National Dairy Promotion and Research Board awards up to 11 $2,500 scholarships to undergraduate students (sophomore through senior) enrolled in an agriculture field of study with strong ties to dairy. Majors include: communications/public relations, journalism, marketing, business, economics, nutrition, food science, and Ag education. In addition, the NDPRB awards a $3,500 James H. Loper Jr. Memorial Scholarship to the outstanding scholarship recipient. Deadline: late April. Application information

Local groups offering scholarships (subject to change):

• (Jackson Purchase Area) River Valley AgCredit Scholarship - $1,500 - Deadline: April 15

• Anderson County Cattlemen’s Association Scholarship - $2,000

• Anderson County Farm Bureau: George Cotton Memorial Scholarship - $1,500 - Deadline: April 1.

• Ballard County Conservation District Scholarship

• Ballard County Homemakers Scholarship

• Bourbon County Farm Bureau Scholarship - $1,000 - Deadline: May 1

• Breckinridge County Cattleman’s Association Scholarship - $1,000

• Caldwell/Lyon Cattleman’s Association Scholarship - Deadline: March 30. 

• Campbell County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000

• Campbell County Farm Bureau Scholarship - $1,000

• Carlisle County Farm Bureau Scholarship

• Carlisle County High School Pressly Templeton Scholarship - $1,000

• Christian County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000

• Christian County Farm Bureau Scholarship - Admin through KFB. 

• Clark County Conservation District: William Thorn Memorial Agriculture Scholarship - $1,000 - Deadline: March 1

• Cumberland County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - Deadline: May 1

• Daviess County Farm Bureau Tom Curtsinger Scholarship - $2,000

• Estill County Soil Conservation Scholarship

• Franklin County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000 - Deadline: June 1
  Call 502/352-2701.

• Franklin County Farm Bureau Paul Gray Memorial Scholarship - Call 502-223-2193.

• Sidney and Eunice Turner Scholarship (Franklin Co.) - $1,800 - Deadline: February 26.  turnerscholarshipcommittee@gmail.com

• Gallatin County Conservation District: Raymond Skirvin/ Helen Maxwell Scholarship - $500 - Deadline: April 18

• Garrard County Conservation District Scholarship - $500 - Deadline: April 2

• Grant County Cattlemen’s Association Scholarship - Deadline: May 1

• Grant County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000 - Deadline: May 1

• Grayson County Beef Cattlemen Scholarship - $1,000

• Green County Fair Board Scholarship - $1,000 - Deadline: March 1

• Hancock County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - $150 - Deadline: April 1.

• Hardin County Farm Bureau - Several offered

• Jessamine County Beef Cattle Association: Charles Mathis Memorial Scholarship - $500

• Knott County Soil Conservation District Scholarship - $500 - Deadline: September

• LaRue County Extension Homemakers Annual Scholarship - $400 - March 1.

• LaRue County Pork Association Scholarship - $500 - April 1

• LaRue County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000 - March 31

• LaRue County Young Farmers Scholarship - $500 - May 30

• Laurel County Extension Homemakers Emma Lou Cissell Memorial Scholarship

• Laurel County Conservation District Scholarship - $2,500 - April 1

• Letcher County Conservation District: Cecil G. Hensley/James McAuley Memorial Scholarship - $750

• Logan County Southern States Russellville Cooperative Scholarship - $500 - April 15

• Lyon County FFA Alumni Scholarship - $1,000 - Feb. 1

• Madison County Extension Homemakers Association Scholarship - $1,000 - April 1

• McCracken County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000 - March 1

• Meade County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000 - April

• Old Iron of South Central Kentucky: Antique Tractor Club Scholarship - $500 - April

• Mercer County Conservation District: Garland Yankey Memorial Scholarship - $1,000 - April 5

• Metcalfe County Conservation District: Russell Fraser Memorial Scholarship - $500 - March

• Monroe County Cattlemen’s Association Scholarship

• Montgomery County Conservation District Scholarship - $500 - March 30

• Montgomery County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - $500

• Montgomery County Steven W. Craft Memorial Scholarship - $500 - Feb. 15

• Montgomery County Howard Memorial Scholarship - March 15

• Montgomery County John T. Ricketts Scholarship - $300 - April 10

• Morgan County Conservation District Scholarship - $500

• Muhlenberg County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - $500 - April 1

• Nelson County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - $500 - April 30

• Ohio County Agriculture for Academics Scholarship - March 15

• Ohio County Conservation District Scholarship - April 18

• Owen County Conservation District Scholarship - $1,000

• Owsley County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - $250 - May 1

• Owsley County Farm Bureau Scholarship - $500 per year for 4 years - April 30

• Owsley County Soil Conservation Scholarship - $700 per yer for 4 years - April 1

• Pendleton County Licking Valley Antique Farm Machinery Association Scholarship- $500 - March/April

• Pendleton County High School FFA: Doug Dawson Memorial Scholarship - $500

• Pendleton County Soil Conservation District Scholarship - $500

• Rockcastle County Wayne Stewart Scholarship - $500 to $1000 - April 25

• Russell County Extension Homemakers Scholarship - $500 - April 30

• Simpson County Conservation District - $1000 - April 11 Call 270-850-3122 for info.

• Warren County Conservation District: J. French Moore Scholarship - $800

• Warren County R. O. Buchanon Scholarship - $4,000 - February 28

• Warren County Farm Bureau Scholarship - $4,000 - February 28

• Washington County Conservation District Scholarship - $500 - March 1

• Webster County Terry Rakestraw Memorial Scholarship

• Wolfe County William Brewer Agriculture Award

• Woodford County Farm Bureau Scholarship

• Many other county Farm Bureau scholarships are administered through the Kentucky Farm Bureau office - KFB Scholarship info

Be sure to check with your high school counselor for additional scholarship opportunities that may not be listed here.