Apply today for the Iowa Farm Bureau Grow Your Future Award!

Are you a young Iowa entrepreneur with an innovative agricultural-related business?

Apply for Iowa Farm Bureau’s Grow Your Future Award for a chance to win a cash prize up to $7,500!

Congratulations to the 2023 winners!

First Place - Reconnected Farms
Second Place - Mud Ridge Ranch
Third Place - H8R Acres LLC

Cash Prizes

1st Place: $7,500

2nd Place: $5,000

3rd Place: $2,500

Eligibility

- The applicant must have an existing ag-related for-profit business.

- The business must be new to this generation of farmers/created by the young entrepreneur applicant – not inherited from, or started in partnership with, a previous generation.

- The ideal candidate(s) is an individual(s) already involved in agriculture.

- Eligible agricultural fields include, but are not limited to, the sale of food and agricultural products, niche ag production, agritourism, or ag services. Ag technology businesses (e.g. software or app development) are excluded from this competition but are welcome to apply for the separate Farm Bureau Ag Innovation Challenge.

- The applicant must be a member, in good standing, of his or her county Farm Bureau (in Iowa).  Or applicant can join their local county Farm Bureau to become eligible to participate in the Grow Your Future Award.

- The applicant must be between the ages or 18 and 35 and shall not have reached his or her 36th birthday by January 28, 2023. If any business partner is 36 years or older, only those under 36 years old can participate in the application.

- Previous applicants are eligible to apply again unless they, or their business, was a prize winner in a previous year. 

- Not eligible to compete are: current members of the IFBF Young Farmer Advisory Committee; current members of the AFBF Young Farmer & Rancher Committee; previous Grow Your Future winners or AFBF Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge/Ag Innovation Challenge competitors; IFBF directors, officers, employees or immediate family members of such individuals.