Farm Credit Mid-America Enrichment Program | Herbert College of Agriculture

The FCMA Enrichment Program provides funding to make travel, competition, and club activity more accessible for students to enrich the college experience as well as to increase interaction between the credit and financial services industry and students.

Email Dr. Karen DeLong the following information:

Name of the student, club, or group making the request
The specifics of the request (i.e. how you propose to use the funds)
The approximate dollar amount of the request
Guarantees that all other possible funding sources have been exhausted (e.g. a Travel Funding Request Form has already been submitted if applicable)
Preference is given to requests for events that are most closely aligned with the mission of this program, which includes “increasing the interaction between the credit and financial services industry and students”

The FCMA Enrichment Program has supported the following:

Competition travel for the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics Quiz Bowl Team and the UTIA Forage Bowl Team
Club events like Block and Bridle’s Rocky Top Classic Cattle Show
Lodging associated with student job shadowing with Swift Trading in Nashville
Dairy Club supplies for Ag Day

Inquire today about the FCMA Enrichment Program.

Reach Out

In addition to sponsoring student, club, and team enrichment activities, this program also increases the interaction between Herbert students and Farm Credit Mid-America (FCMA). Below are photos of events where FCMA has been on campus to interact with students.