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Home > The Off Farm Income Podcast > OFI 873: Combining Your Passion And The FFA | FFA SAE Edition | Ashlyn Quinn | Monmouth Roseville High School FFA


	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 873: Combining Your Passion And The FFA \| FFA SAE Edition \| Ashlyn Quinn \| Monmouth Roseville High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:23:44
	Publish Date:		2020-08-17 01:30:08
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING ASHLYN QUINN! What if your student has a passion that is not related to agriculture, they want to be part of the FFA and they want to combine the two? Is there a way to get it done? Our guest today, Ashlyn Quinn, did exactly this in a rural part of Illinois. In the Illinois FFA there is a proficiency category of safety. Through Ashlyn’s work as a lifeguard, she was able to incorporate her job working as a lifeguard at the local YMCA with her time in the FFA. This led her to win an Illinois State Proficiency Award in this very category. Ashlyn is done with high school now, and she is on to studying statistics and natural resources at Carl Sandburg Community College in Galesburg, Illinois. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Safety & Agricultural Education *HIGH SCHOOL:* Monmouth Roseville High School; Monmouth, Illinois *MASCOT:* Titans *FFA ADVISOR:* Jason Kilburn CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ASHLYN QUINN: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Monmouth High School Ag. Department’s website: Ashlyn’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jkilburn@mr238.org Monmouth High School’s Telephone Number: 309-734-4712 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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