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OFI 536: What To Do With An SAE Grant – Buy More Bees | FFA SAE Edition | Kaelyn Sumner | Pulaski High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:26:17
Publish Date: 2018-12-05 01:30:04
Description:    SHOW NOTES: INTRODUCING KAELYN SUMNER! Bees and honey production are such a great and rewarding SAE.  I love every interview I get to do with a student who has chose this route.  This type of project is also so valuable because it can be conducted when a student does not have room to raise livestock, and it requires significant enough management practices that the student really learns the responsibility of raising and caring for a species. Our guest today, Kaelyn Sumner, is doing this so well!  Kaelyn has started her own business called "K Bee S".  She started off with 6 hives, and is now down to 5.  But anyone who has raised bees will understand how that goes.  She actually did not intend to start with so many hives but she received a couple of grants for her FFA project and needed to spend the money somewhere.  So, she bought more bees. Now Kaelyn is selling honey.  She had her first harvest this summer and got a lot more honey than she was anticipating.  She even sells it in 5lb jugs.  Well, actually she only has one customer buying that much quantity right now, but she is prepared to fulfill that demand.  She is is doing a great job marketing her product as well! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Honey Production HIGH SCHOOL: Pulaski High School; Pulaski, Wisconsin MASCOT: Red Raiders FFA ADVISOR: Terry Erdman CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KAELYN SUMNER: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Pulaski High School website: Kaelyn's FFA Advisors' Email Addresses: tgerdmann@pulaskischools.org Pulaski High School's Telephone Number: 920-822-6700 Kaelyn's Facebook Business Page: LINK 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 LISTEN TO US ON SATELLITE RADIO! WE ARE CONTRIBUTORS TO "FFA TODAY" ON RURAL RADIO SIRIUS XM CHANNEL 147! "FFA Today" airs on Rural Radio Sirius XM Channel 147 Saturdays at 7:30 AM Eastern and Sundays at 6:30 PM Eastern. Please let RURAL RADIO know that you like hearing us on their channel!  Here is how to contact them and leave feedback: Email: zacht@rfdtv.com Website:  RuralRadio147.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RURALRADIO147  
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