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INTRODUCING KELLI ROBERTS!
Today I get to learn something new. Our guest, Kelli Roberts, is learning to farm from her grandfather, father and uncle on their farm in North Carolina. She talked to me about producing fiber and oil crops. I had never heard anyone refer to what they were growing in that manner. 
On their farm they grow cotton, soybeans and peanuts. Obviously, the cotton is used for fiber and the soybeans and peanuts are used for oil. What a great way to refer to what they grow. The regional differences from one part of the U.S. to another are always fascinating.
While I don’t focus on the FFA (CDE’s) or career development events on this show, that is such a valuable aspect of the FFA experience. Never has this been proven more than in this interview with Kelli. During Kelli’s high school journey she did a CDE involving soil surveying. Something clicked, and she decided that this is what she wanted to do with her life.
Today, Kelli, is getting ready to start college. She is going to study for one semester at a community college and then transfer to North Carolina State University. She has decided to major in crop and soil science, and she hopes to spend her career helping people assess cropland and their soils.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Diversified Crop Production
HIGH SCHOOL: Lumberton High School, Lumberton, North Carolina
MASCOT: Pirates
FFA ADVISOR: Candace Wilkins
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KELLI ROBERTS:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Lumberton High School Ag. Department’s website:
Kelli’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: candace.wilkins2@robeson.k12.nc.us
Lumberton High School’s Telephone Number: 910-671-6050
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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D&B Supply Show
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