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INTRODUCING CASSIDY HACKER!
Our guest today has a pretty incredible story. Almost immediately upon beginning in the FFA she took off like a rocket. She almost immediately won her state’s gold award for diversified livestock production during her sophomore year. This made her ineligible to compete in this category again.
This was followed by another state gold award during her junior year in swine production. Again, she became ineligible. Finally during her senior year she one gold in specialty animal production.
During this time, one of the specialty animals she was raising were peacocks. She stumbled into a business with these birds and started selling their feathers to flower stores. Now she is selling peacock feathers online and to several flower stores in her area. It is quite a niche business, and she has really taken to it.
Cassidy Hacker is now at South Dakota State University studying agricultural business. Much of her experience in the FFA has led her to this choice. She has a bright future in entrepreneurship if that is the direction she chooses to go.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Specialty Animal Production
HIGH SCHOOL: Sleepy Eye High School; Sleepy Eye, Minnesota
MASCOT: Indians
FFA ADVISOR: Mary Hoffmann
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CASSIDY HACKER:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Sleepy Eye High School Ag. Department’s website:
Cassidy’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: Mary.Hoffmann@sleepyeye.mntm.org
Sleepy Eye High School’s Telephone Number: 507-794-7903
FFA LINKS:
National FFA Organization
Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
Support FFA
Donate to FFA – One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000. In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants. With your donations, more students can get this head start – pay it forward.
REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA:
- Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world. FFA is providing the needed education, training and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and insure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food.
- Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation. The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth.
- Farmers, ranchers and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store:
“Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive.”
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack
Other Places You Can Listen To Us:
D&B Supply Show
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