Recipients of 2025 AgHeritage Farm Credit Services Scholarships announced

AgHeritage Farm Credit Services is proud to annually invest in the next generation of ag leaders through our scholarship program. This spring, 11 scholarships are being presented – nine $1,000 Customer Scholarships, one $1,000 Ken Shea Memorial Scholarship, and one $2,000 University Scholarship. Recipients have been chosen in recognition of their outstanding academic performance and school-related extracurricular activities.

The Customer Scholarship Program, established in 2001, is open to dependent children and grandchildren of AgHeritage Farm Credit Services stockholder customers living in its 24-county service area. The nine students receiving $1,000 AgHeritage Farm Credit Services Customer Scholarships are:

Blair Baxley, Pocahontas High School (Randolph County)
Tyler Burks, Pulaski Academy (Pulaski County)
Kyndal Devers, Concord High School (Cleburne County)
Berkeley Fox, DeWitt High School (Arkansas County)
John Morgan, Monticello High School (Drew County)
Laura Grace Oxner, Searcy High School (White County)
Rebecca Rutledge, Newport High School (Jackson County)
Cayla Schaefer, McCrory High School (Woodruff County)
Aaron Tilley, Rison High School (Cleveland County)

Ella Poole of Hamburg High School (Chicot County) has been named as the recipient of this year’s $1,000 Ken Shea Memorial Scholarship. Presented in memory of prominent Dumas civic, agricultural and business leader Thomas McKennon "Ken" Shea, the scholarship is open to dependent children and grandchildren of AgHeritage Farm Credit Services Southern Region stockholder customers.

Mary Frances Oxner, a junior attending the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, is being awarded the $2,000 University Scholarship. The University Scholarship Program is open to any current college student studying agriculture at an Arkansas university or college. Applicants do not need to be AgHeritage customers.

AgHeritage Farm Credit Services is a customer-owned rural and agriculture lender with owned and managed assets of approximately $2.80 billion as of December 31, 2024. The company provides credit and related services to approximately 6,700 farmers, ranchers, rural residents and the agribusiness industry in 24 Arkansas counties, with branch offices located in Batesville, Brinkley, Lonoke, McGehee, Newport, Pine Bluff, Pocahontas, Searcy and Stuttgart.