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	Podcast:		The Off Farm Income Podcast
	Episode:		OFI 991: We Are Moving Where? \| FFA SAE Edition \| Cole Taylor \| Opheim High School FFA
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:28:49
	Publish Date:		2021-02-10 01:30:19
	Description:		*Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter!* Email address: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING COLE TAYLOR: You can’t get more remote in the lower 48 states than the far, northeast corner of Montana or the northwest corner of North Dakota. The towns are small, the winters are extreme and the people are fantastic! Our guest today, Cole Taylor, comes from one of those such towns – Opheim, Montana. He is the president of this FFA Chapter, and he is taking full advantage of state and national SAE grants to start and grow his bee and honey business, Cole’s Honeybees and Blue Sky Honey. Opheim High School and Junior High School are combined and together they have a total of 15 students. That is small! Cole was not born in raised in Opheim. His father is originally from that area but spent a career in the military. It was only after his father retired, and when Cole was in the 6th grade, that Cole and his family moved to Opheim. Even though Cole was not coming from a large city or particularly a large high school, he still downsized in both town and school in a big way. In today’s episode, Cole and I will discuss what it was like to make that move and to learn the new social norms of such a small town. We will also discuss how he got the idea to start a bee business, and how he has been able to fund the startup through SAE grants. Cole has awesome goals for after high school that involve service and duty. He will explain where he is headed. You are going to be an even bigger fan of small-town America and the great citizens they produce after this interview! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Cole’s Honeybees *MASCOT:* Vikings *FFA ADVISOR:* Chase Redfield CONTACT INFORMATION FOR COLE TAYLOR: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Opheim High School website: Cole’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: credfield@ohsvikings.org Opheim High School’s Telephone Number: (406) 762-3214 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 ensure 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 More Places You Can Listen to Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald:
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