The Macoupin County Agriculture Education Foundation is offering 1- $1,500 scholarhip, 1- $1,000 scholarship, and 7 - $500 scholarships for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year to students wishing to pursue agriculture majors.

The applicant must be a graduating high school senior or a current college student who plans to attend or is attending an Illinois junior college, college, university or trade school and majoring in agriculture.

Applications are available through high school guidance counselors, high school agriculture instructors of the Macoupin County Farm Bureau. An electronic copy of the application can be requested by contacting the MCFB office by telephone or by email at: mcfb@frontiernet.net. All applications must be submitted to the MCFB office by March 24, 2017.