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INTRODUCING ELLIOT CHASE!
Today I get to interview Elliot Chase again. It has only been about 9 months since I met him at the National FFA Convention and was so impressed that I did an interview on the spot. Even in just that time Elliot has continued to develop what he is doing in farming and has set some great goals for himself.
Elliot is now artificially inseminating his own cattle, but still with a little oversight. He wants to reach the point that he is proficient in this because the semen is so valuable and of course he wants his cows to have a calf when he is planning on it. Elliot is also paying cash rent to his grandmother to lease 15 acres of ground to grow corn and soybeans on.
Elliot has some significant goals for the future. Over the next three years of high school he wants to grow his cow herd. He also wants to increase the amount of land he has under cultivation to between 50 & 60 acres. And, he has his eyes on becoming the South Dakota State Star Farmer. Elliot is taking a hard look at what other star farmers have done to achieve that honor, and he is following in their footsteps.
I am looking forward to following up with him in three years to see where these goals have taken him.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production, Diversified Livestock Production & Diversified Crop Production
HIGH SCHOOL: McCook Central High School; Salem, South Dakota
MASCOT: Cougars
FFA ADVISOR: Tracy Chase
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ELLIOT CHASE:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the McCook Central High School Ag. Department’s website:
Elliot’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: tracy.chase@k12.sd.us
McCook Central High School’s Telephone Number: (605) 425-2264
FFA LINKS:
National FFA Organization
Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
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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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