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OFI 556: Going Big With 76,000 Apple Trees | FFA SAE Edition | Gavin Sahli | Quincy High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:22:52
Publish Date: 2019-01-21 01:30:32
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SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING GAVIN SAHLI!

Our guest today comes from Washington State, and if you did not know they grow a lot of apples there.  Gavin Sahli has grown up around this industry, and has been mentored by his family with their apple farm.

Gavin decided to follow the families apple legacy and jump in himself.  However, saying that he is “jumping in” is a vast understatement.  Gavin is really going for it.  He has planted 76,000 apple trees and is growing honey crisp root stock to sell to other apple growers throughout Washington State and beyond.  This is a very significant project that involves a lot of risk and potentially a lot of reward.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Tree Fruit Rootstock Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Quincy High School FFA; Quincy, California

MASCOT: Jackrabbits

FFA ADVISOR: Rodney Cool

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR GAVIN SAHLI:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Quincy High School Ag. Department’s website:

Gavin’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: rcool@qsd.wednet.edu

Quincy High School’s Telephone Number: (509) 787-3501

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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  • 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.
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack 

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