• Class of '09
  Winners
• Eligibility
• Evaluation
  Criteria
• Rules and
  Regulations

Who is eligible?

• Applicants must have a minimum GPA of 2.80 on a 4.0 scale.
• Applicants must be high school seniors who will graduate in 2009 and plan to enroll in a full-time undergraduate accredited two- or four-year college or university with the intent to engage in a course of study related to agriculture or agribusiness.
• Applicants should be involved in agriculture or with agricultural organizations.
• Applicants must live in a cotton-producing state and be directly involved with cotton production. Cotton-producing states are defined as Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia.
• Persons related to employees of Monsanto, its agencies or competitive cotton seed companies are ineligible.*

*Employees, officers and directors of Delta and Pine Land business, Monsanto and each of its respective parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotional agencies, competitive cotton seed companies and members of their immediate families (spouse, children, siblings, parents), and persons living in the same household (whether or not related) are ineligible.