Young Farmer & Ranchers Scholarships

The Yolo County Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers (YF&R) Scholarships are designed to give financial aid to students residing or attending a high school in Yolo County with a desire to start a career in the agriculture industry or an agriculture-related field. Scholarships ranging in amounts from $1,000 to $5,000 will be awarded to graduating seniors from a Yolo County High School. This scholarship is based on scholastic achievement, leadership skills, and agriculture involvement.

Please be sure that all applicants submit their applications on or before June 6, 2025 with all of the necessary paperwork.

Any graduating high school senior residing or attending a high school in Yolo County and entering a two year community college or four year college or university and is majoring in an agriculture based or related field is eligible. The student must be enrolled as a full-time student or enrolled in at least twelve (12) academic units per semester or quarter during the year of the scholarship award. Applicants do not need to be a member of Yolo County Farm Bureau to be eligible.

Application instructions

Fillable, electronic scholarship applications can be found online at www.yolofarmbureau.org under the tab “About Us,” then select “Scholarships.” All submissions must be typed.

Mailing Address

Physical Address

Applications and materials not received by or postmarked on June 6, 2025 will not be accepted.

Scholarships will be awarded to students via their school’s financial department and will be directly applied to their tuition. Students are responsible for submitting proof of enrollment and student ID numbers as well as addresses to their school’s financial department in order to receive scholarship monies.

Interviews may be necessary to determine the scholarship recipient. Finalists will be contacted directly to schedule an interview time and date. If you have any questions regarding the YF&R Scholarship, please contact the Farm Bureau office at (530) 662-6316.

Yolo County Farm Bureau is pleased to announce that Payton Brookshire has been awarded the Yolo County Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers scholarship for 2025.

Payton is a graduate of Woodland Christian High School. She’s been active in 4-H for a decade, earning multiple Champion and Reserve Champion awards for Lambs, Sheep, Beef and Swine, along with Champion Large Animal Master Showman three times, and coaching younger members to their own Champion standings. She has been an active member of her FFA Section as well, holding Sentinel and Secretary offices, and earning her State Degree, Star Chapter Farmer, and Star Chapter Greenhand along with multiple Champion Showman awards. While she took pride in earning awards, what stood out most were the conversations with visitors, answering questions and explaining where food comes from, how animals are cared for and why agriculture matters. She is focused on Judging and will continue to participate in Lake Land College’s nationally recognized livestock judging team in Mattoon, Illinois, where she intends to pursue her agriculture teaching degree. She wants “to help bridge the growing gap between agriculture and the public by teaching students not just about farming, but about the value and science behind it”.

Congratulations, Payton!

Yolo County Farm Bureau is pleased to announce that Allison Aguiar has been awarded the Yolo County Farm Bureau Young Farmers & Ranchers scholarship for 2025.

Allison is a graduate of Winters High School and was an intern with Cogent Ag Consulting. She was a member of varsity volleyball (captain), Softball and basketball (captain), as well as Chapter Secretary, Vice President and President of Winters FFA consecutively. She has won awards for FFA Leadership and Career Development, including 1^st Individual Ag Sales (National), 2^nd Individual CA Water Issues (State) and 1^st Prepared Speaking (State) for which she spent months researching, interviewing and writing, focusing on the fall of the California nut industry in hopes of educating others on what the industry was going through and to seek out a solution. This 1^st place win allowed her to take her speech to the national stage at the National FFA Convention and showed her the impact that educating others through advocacy can have in the agricultural industry and further excited her to pursue a pathway of agricultural policy. Allison will be attending Cal Poly San Luis Obispo studying Agricultural Communication.

Congratulations, Allison!