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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 875: The Good That Agriculture Can Do \| FFA SAE Edition \| Breanna Thompson \| Laclede County High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:20:32
	Publish Date:		2020-08-19 01:30:37
	Description:		SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING BREANNA THOMPSON! How big a part of your community is your local FFA Chapter? In today’s episode we will speak with a student who lives in a community in which the FFA chapter is central. Breanna Thompson was inspired as a young girl to join the FFA because she already knew the FFA advisors and was seeing what the FFA was doing in her community. It was exposure like this that led her to begin her own cattle herd while she was in the 8th Grade and just getting started with the FFA. She had her father take her to the auction, and got her own buyers number. Then she bought her first cattle. Today, as an incoming sophomore Breanna is already an FFA veteran. Her thoughts about the FFA and agriculture have evolved. She brings up a very good point during the interview about what she sees and feels when she goes into the grocery store. Looking at all of the different agricultural products that are abundantly available and priced reasonably makes Breanna swell with pride in seeing just how much modern agriculture really helps people. Breanna has been raising her own cattle for some time, but she wants to experiment with new ways of working with cattle. This year she is buying feeder cattle and is going to start trying this business out. Raising cattle is how Breanna is going to pay for her future college expenses, so let’s wish her the best luck possible on this endeavor! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production *HIGH SCHOOL:* Laclede County High School; Conway, Missouri *MASCOT:* Bears *FFA ADVISOR:* Mary Ann Keck CONTACT INFORMATION FOR BREANNA THOMPSON: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Laclede County High School Ag. Department’s website: Breanna’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: mkeck@lcr1.org Laclede High School’s Telephone Number: (417) 589-2171 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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