Kern County Wool Growers Auxiliary Scholarship

The purpose of the Kern County Wool Growers Auxiliary Scholarship Program is to promote continuing education in agriculture and agriculture-related fields through academic financial support. Examples of agriculture-related fields include, but are not necessarily limited to: Animal Science (i.e. Genetics, Nutrition), Soil, Crop, and Plant Science, Fashion and Textiles, Marketing, Environmental Research and Conservation.

AWARD CRITERIA
Applicant must be a citizen or legal resident of the United States and a Kern County resident attending high school or college. Applicant must be taking or planning to enroll in agriculture or agriculture-related courses, with plans to pursue a college degree in agriculture or an agriculture-related field.

ESSAY REQUIREMENTS
Essay Theme: What are the benefits of using grazing animals to mitigate the overall net carbon emissions from land areas?

For helpful information, please utilize the Natural Resources Conservation Service website

Length of essay should be 1,500 words or less. Entries will be judged on originality, clarity, and continuity of theme. Applicants must submit a typewritten, double-spaced copy of their essay with the application. Entry deadline is April 10, 2021. All essay entries will become and remain the property of the Kern County Wool Growers Auxiliary.

Mail all scholarship entries to:
Kern County Wool Growers Auxiliary
ATTN: Scholarship Committee
P O Box 80715
Bakersfield, CA 93380-0715

For questions regarding the scholarship program, please contact:
Janet Barreneche
(661) 589-2926
janetbarreneche@gmail.com