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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 725: Setting Goals To Grow Your High School Business \| FFA SAE Edition \| Matt Rowlette \| Madison Southern High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:22:53
	Publish Date:		2019-12-02 01:30:14
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING MATT ROWLETTE! Well, if I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a lot more than that – lawn businesses are millionaire makers. And today I get to interview another student who is off to a great start as an entrepreneur in life due to the FFA and this type of business. Matt Rowlette started Rowlette’s Lawn Care his freshman year of high school because he needed an SAE project. Today it has grown quite a bit. He and his employee currently mow 54 lawns per week during the mowing season. He has upgraded all of his equipment, and he has purchased new equipment so he can offer more services to his customers. Matt is studying agribusiness with an emphasis in lawn and turf management at Eastern Kentucky University, and his plan is to use what he learns there to grow his business even larger with more services and more customers. Matt’s goal is get up to 100 customers with two crews servicing all of those lawns. I believe he is well on his way. As a result of all of Matt’s hard work he became the 2019 Kentucky State Star in agribusiness. He is also developing his grandfather’s old, 55 acre farm where he is cutting and baling hay and starting his own cow herd. This is an exciting entrepreneur to keep your eyes on. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Lawn Care Business *HIGH SCHOOL:* Madison Southern High School; Berea, Kentucky *MASCOT:* Eagles *FFA ADVISOR:* Kevin Anderson CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MATT ROWLETTE: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Madison Southern High School Ag. Department’s website: Matt’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: kevin.anderson@madison.kyschools.us Madison Southern High School’s Telephone Number: 859-625-6148 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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