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OFI 765: Finding Independence On The Family Farm | FFA SAE Edition | Beau Mumm | Monticello High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:19:04
Publish Date: 2020-02-10 01:30:50
Description: Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter! Email address: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING BEAU MUMM! At some point in everyone's journey we seek independence.  Today's episode of the Off-Farm Income Podcast really illustrates that. Beau Mumm has been brought up working with sheep on his families farm in Illinois.  This is a part of the farming operation that was started by his grandfather several decades ago and is carrying on today.  In the midst of all of this and in Beau's FFA journey he has incorporated the families Hampshire sheep into his SAE and other projects. Beau, like most young men and women hit a point in which he wanted to try things his way.  So, he invested in one Tunis lamb and started building a herd with an entirely different breed than his family has traditionally raised.  Doing this Beau is able to try things his way.  He makes his own mistakes, and he fails or succeeds on his own. What a great way to learn by doing.  When you have the full responsibility, you learn a lot faster and retain a lot more knowledge.  It is this courage and the freedom given to Beau by his parents that has led him to winning the state proficiency award for sheep production in Illinois. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Sheep Production HIGH SCHOOL: Monticello High School; Monticello, Illinois MASCOT: Sages FFA ADVISOR: Elizabeth Rost CONTACT INFORMATION FOR BEAU MUMM: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Monticello High School FFA website: Beau's FFA Advisor's Email Address: rosel@sages.us Monticello High School's Telephone Number: 217-762-8511 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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