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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 809: Making A Living Farming Four Acres \| FFA SAE Edition \| Korey Bunselmeyer \| Trico High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:35:21
	Publish Date:		2020-04-27 01:30:27
	Description:		*Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter!* Email address: SHOW NOTES *INTRODUCING KOREY BUNSELMEYER!* So, how much land do you need to make a living farming? Obviously the model of farming and your overhead make a big difference. Throughout my years of trying to figure out how I could farm, I read all sorts of stories of people farming on very small acreages. In today’s episode, I am going to bring you the evidence that this is possible. I will be interviewing Korey Bunselmeyer. Korey is a senior at Trico High School in Campbell Hill, Illinois and he is a state proficiency winner in vegetable production. He is running an incredible business that he started when he was twelve years of age. Today Korey has two, 30’X48′ greenhouses that he starts vegetables in, and he is farming a total of four acres. 1/2 of this four acres is devoted to the production of sweet corn, and the other half is for vegetables. Korey has grown his business to the point that during the summer he devotes two days per week to making deliveries. In the fall, he sets up decorative scenes in customer’s yards with what he has grown on his farm. Korey is very enterprising, and knows his business! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Vegetable Production *HIGH SCHOOL:* Trico High School; Campbell Hill, Illinois *MASCOT:* Pioneers *FFA ADVISOR:* Jason Huseman CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KOREY BUNSELMEYER: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Trico High School Website: Korey’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jasonh@trico176.org Trico High School Telephone Number: 618-426-1111 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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