Southwest Georgia Farm Credit offers 2025 scholarships

BAINBRIDGE — Southwest Georgia Farm Credit serves farmers, farm businesses and people who live and work in the small towns and communities in southwest Georgia. Agriculture is a way of life here, and for more than 100 years, Farm Credit has played an important role in providing a safe, sound, reliable source of credit to rural America.

To help ensure a bright future for rural communities, as well as the agricultural industry, Southwest Georgia Farm Credit presents several annual scholarship opportunities totaling $8,500. In 2025, the association will offer two $1,500 Farm Credit scholarships, one $1,500 technical scholarship, one $2,000 scholarship to honor the memory of former colleague Duane Watson, and one $2,000 HBCU scholarship to the applicant planning to attend a two- or four-year historically black college or university on a full-time basis.

Applicants must be a high school senior and will be required to submit a high school transcript, two letters of recommendation, and a two-page essay. Students also must indicate their primary residence is within the association’s 21-country territory: Baker, Calhoun, Chattahoochee, Clay, Decatur, Dougherty, Early, Grady, Lee, Marion, Miller, Mitchell, Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Seminole, Stewart, Sumter, Terrell, Thomas and Webster counties.

For seniors heading to college, Southwest Georgia Farm Credit’s scholarships will help these students pursue their dreams. Public, private, and home-schooled students are all eligible. High school seniors will need to visit the Southwest Georgia Farm Credit website (swgafarmcredit.com/scholarships) to download an application or contact their high school’s guidance office. Completed applications must be received before or by 5 p.m. on Jan. 15. 

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