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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 721: Buying Out Grandpa’s Cattle Herd \| FFA SAE Edition \| Logen Winfield \| Apollo High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:21:08
	Publish Date:		2019-11-25 01:30:37
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING LOGEN WINFIELD! Our guest today is the 2019 Kentucky Star Farmer, and hopes to be the 2020 American Star Farmer. When Logen Winfield was just 14 years old he bought his first couple cows. But when he was about 17 his grandfather decided that he wanted to get out of the cattle business, and an opportunity arose for Logen. Logen got financed and purchased his grandfather’s herd of 50 cattle. And, he has not looked back. Today Logen has purchased even more cattle, and he is paying particular attention to the genetics in his herd. He wants to start selling some breeding stock in addition to his commercial calves. So, he searched his area and found some polled Hereford cattle for sale. He drove three hours and purchased 2 bulls and some heifers to start a cross breeding situation and producing black baldies. It is this kind of thinking that has propelled Logen to the national stage in 2020. Logen is currently studying agricultural business in college, and he hopes to eventually be able to partner with his grandfather and uncle in their row crop farm. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production *HIGH SCHOOL:* Apollo High School; Owensboro, Kentucky *MASCOT:* Eagles *FFA ADVISOR:* Matt Johnson CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LOGEN WINFIELD: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Apollo High School Ag. Department’s website: Logen’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: james.morgan@daviess.kyschools.us Apollo High School’s Telephone Number: 270-852-7118 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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