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SHOW NOTES
INTRODUCING LOGAN ZEMLICKA!
If you want to raise cattle, there are a lot of innovative ways to get your herd started and to give you a boost when you finally go out completely on your own. Our guest today, Logan Zemlicka, is doing this very thing, and I really like his method.
Logan is currently a senior in high school and wants to be involved in the cattle business. He has been able to grow his herd of Gelbvieh cattle to about 20 head already through hard work and being innovative.
Logan works on a neighbor’s farm, and has struck a creative deal with the owner. He is allowed to integrate his cattle with the farmer’s herd in exchange for his labor. Also, the farmer helps him with his business model which includes traveling to shows to market his purebred stock, doing embryo transfers and selling bulls.
It takes a lot of wisdom for a student, still in high school, to see the value in a business relationship like this over just receiving a paycheck that can be immediately spent. I am excited for Logan’s future in the cattle business. If he keeps being this creative, he will find a way to make it.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production
HIGH SCHOOL: Wolsey-Wessington High School; Wolsey, South Dakota
MASCOT: War Birds
FFA ADVISOR: Andrew Boersma
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LOGAN: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Wolsey-Wessington High School website:
Logan’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: andrew.boersma@k12.sd.us
Wolsey-Wessington High School’s Telephone Number: (605) 883-4221
FFA LINKS:
National FFA Organization
Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
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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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