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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 849: Training Herding Dogs Leads To A State Proficiency Award \| FFA SAE Edition \| Katherine Nealen \| North Penn High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:28:26
	Publish Date:		2020-07-06 01:30:03
	Description:		*Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter!* Email address: SHOW NOTES *INTRODUCING KATHERINE NEALEN!* The “can do” spirit of the students that I get to interview for the Off-Farm Income Podcast is truly remarkable. In today’s episode I am fortunate to interview another one of those students who just blows away my pre-conceived notions of what high school students are capable of. Katie Nealen was just finishing up her junior year of high school when we recorded this episode. She has a love for animals and she obviously has a talent for working with them. Katie had already been awarded a state proficiency award from the State of Pennsylvania for animal care as a result of her work with animals. Katie trains and sells border collies as herding dogs for working goats, sheep and cattle. Her business is called Kat Slash Farm. She also captures and trains raptors for hunting and raises goats and dairy cattle. She has her sights set on veterinary school once she is done with high school, and her love of working with animals makes this an obvious choice. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Commercial Dog Breeding *HIGH SCHOOL:* North Penn-Liberty High School; Liberty, Pennsylvania *MASCOT:* The Mountie Man *FFA ADVISOR:* Nathan Schanbacher CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KATHERINE NEALEN: Click on the picture below to be taken to the North Penn-Liberty High School Website: Katie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: nschanbacher@southerntioga.org North Penn-Liberty High School Telephone Number: 570-324-2071 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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