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INTRODUCING SAMANTHA GAMBONINI!
Our guest today is the fifth generation to raise cattle on her families dairy farm in Petaluma, California. Samantha Gambonini was gifted her first heifer at the age of 3 by her grandfather. Since then she has retained all of the heifers born from her cows, bottle fed the calves and put her cows into the milking string after they calved. Her herd has increased to 48 registered Holstein and Jersey cattle today.
Samantha joined the FFA during her freshman year of high school, inspired by her sisters and others. She quickly got involved and served as her chapter’s reporter her sophomore year. She is going into her junior year now and will be serving as her chapter’s vice-president as well as her region’s vice-president.
Even with all of her involvement in the FFA she makes time for several dairy shows around the country every year. She is also involved with a Holstein advocacy group and is educating people about agriculture through outreach in the group. Samantha is eager to advocate for ag, and she said that she does it by inviting people into the group whether or not they have any knowledge of cattle or agriculture.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Dairy Production Entrepreneurship
HIGH SCHOOL: Petaluma High School; Petaluma, California
MASCOT: Trojans
FFA ADVISOR: Jacob Dunn
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR SAMANTHA GAMBONINI:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Petaluma High School Ag. Department’s website:
Samantha’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jdunn@petk12.org
Petaluma High School’s Telephone Number: (707) 778-4652
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:
“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
Other Places You Can Listen To Us:
D&B Supply Show
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