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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 586: Star Farming And Diversifying \| FFA SAE Edition \| Jonathan Timm \| Cisne High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:28:01
	Publish Date:		2019-04-01 01:30:32
	Description:		SHOW NOTES *INTRODUCING JONATHAN TIMM!* I recently had the opportunity to speak with an FFA chapter about diversifying your agricultural operations to create financial sustainability. I should have had today’s guest come in and speak with them. Jonathan Timm definitely understands the concept of diversification and multiple streams of revenue in his business. Look at this list of revenue sources he is involved with: Egg sales Labrador Retriever sales Showing pigs Selling finished pigs Selling feeder pigs Cattle production It is no wonder that he received a proficiency award for diversified livestock and eventually became the state star farmer for Illinois as well as a national proficiency winner in swine entrepreneurship! This young man is involved in many different areas of agriculture which keeps him from being over dependent on any one sector. He plans to sharing these great skills with our nation’s youth as he is now majoring in elementary education at Kaskaskia College. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Diversified Livestock and Agricultural Products *HIGH SCHOOL:* Cisne High School; Cisne, Illinois *MASCOT:* Runnin’ Lions *FFA ADVISOR:* Jennifer Timm CONTACT INFORMATION FOR JONATHAN TIMM: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Cisne High School Website: Jonathan’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jjjstimm@yahoo.com Cisne High School Telephone Number: (618) 673-2154 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: “The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard: Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters
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