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INTRODUCING JAKE HAINES!
Until I started this podcast I did not know that there was such a place as Mexico, Missouri. However, now I have been educated as to the existence of this town and also to great FFA students that attend high school there.
Today I am profiling the fourth student from Mexico High School to appear on this show, and I am no less impressed than I was the first three times. Jake Haines is advanced for his age. He is acting as his chapter’s farm manager for their high school farm. At home he has started his own herd of Angus cattle and is growing the herd every year. He is also farming 75 acres of corn and soybeans while continuing to show pigs.
Jake, like so many other young men and women in agriculture, has to pay rent for his equipment use and the ground that he farms. Like many others, he trades his labor for this. When asked why doesn’t his family just give it to him to use, I receive the answer that I so frequently receive – they want him to build work ethic and understand the value of things. I love hearing this, and hear it all the time.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production
HIGH SCHOOL: Mexico High School
MASCOT: Bulldogs
FFA ADVISOR: Kendra Allen
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR JAKE HAINES:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Mexico High School website:
Jake’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: kallen@mexico.k12.mo.us
Mexico High School Telephone Number: 573-581-3773
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
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