OFI 653: Owning A Feedlot In High School | FFA SAE Edition | Thomas Kinder | Hagerman High School FFA

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INTRODUCING THOMAS KINDER!

What would it be like to be in high school and have a feedlot given to you?  Today’s guest found that out when he was in high school and his grandparents gifted a portion of their Colorado feedlot to him, his sister, his brother and his cousins.

Thomas Kinder and his grandparents live in the area of Tuttle, Idaho.  And his grandparents have a feedlot for starter calves there.  They also have a feedlot in Sterling, Colorado for finishing out beeves, and this is the one that they gave a portion of to all of their grandchildren.

Thomas has been out to the feedlot in Colorado once, but he spends a lot of time working on the starter feedlot in Tuttle.  He also spends a lot of time working on the books for the Colorado feedlot with his grandmother.  So, he is getting the practical, pen riding and feeding experience he needs in Idaho and learning the business and book keeping side at his grandma’s kitchen table.

This has served Thomas well as he won a beef proficiency award for the State Of Idaho.  He has also been inspired to seek both his bachelor and master’s degrees in agricultural education.  He starts at the College of Southern Idaho this fall and then is planning on moving on to Montana State University after two years.  At this point he plans on getting both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees and becoming an ag teacher……and of course a feedlot owner and farmer!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production Entrepreneurship

HIGH SCHOOL: Hagerman High School; Hagerman, Idaho

MASCOT: Pirates

FFA ADVISOR: Daniel Knapp

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THOMAS KINDER:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Hagerman High School Ag. Department’s website:

Thomas’ FFA Advisor’s Email Address: daniel.knapp@hjsd.org

Hagerman High School’s Telephone Number: 208-837-4572

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• 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.
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