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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 801: Be So Good They Can’t Help But Promote You \| FFA SAE Edition \| Dalton Potter \| Neoga High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:23:23
	Publish Date:		2020-04-13 01:30:34
	Description:		*Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter!* Email address: SHOW NOTES *INTRODUCING DALTON POTTER!* Our guest today has one of the coolest jobs that a high school student has ever had. Dalton Potter is no longer in high school, but when he was he started working at a recycling center. He did such a good job that he just kept getting promoted. This meant more responsibility, but it also meant operating one of the coolest pieces of equipment ever, in my opinion. Among the other pieces of equipment that Dalton has been able to operate is the large, electro magnet, that hangs from an excavator. I had a lot of fun asking him about this and finding out that it runs on its own power source that is mounted on the excavator. Very cool! This work ethic has served Dalton well. It led to him being a state proficiency winner in Illinois in 2019. And now it has led him to Lakeland College where he is studying agricultural business and supply. When Dalton is at home, he is working on his families 500 sow hog farm. He is off to a great start! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Recycling Plant Placement *HIGH SCHOOL:* Neoga High School; Neoga, Illinois *MASCOT:* Indians *FFA ADVISOR:* Cody Carman CONTACT INFORMATION FOR DALTON POTTER: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Neoga High School Website: Dalton’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: ccarman@neogacusd3.net Neoga High School Telephone Number: 217-895-2201 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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