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OFI 464: Farming With Fifteen Cousins | FFA SAE Edition | Tristan Travis | Creston High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-20 01:30:46
Description: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING TRISTAN TRAVIS! My mother's side of my family are all from Fresno County, California.  Technically they are from Germany, then Russia and eventually Fresno County.  But as I have always known them it has been Fresno, County. My mother's cousin, John Weber, and my two cousins Mike & Jeff Weber, farm what is left of the original family farm.  Now there is only 40 acres left, and Mike and Jeff are doing all the farming with grapes, fruit trees and alfalfa. Whenever I go for a visit I am struck by all of the cousins I have there, even cousins I really do not know.  Mike and Jeff are constantly spending time with family, and I am always jealous. Our guest today, Tristan Travis, has the same situation in Iowa, and he does not take it for granted.  Tristan's family farms crops, cattle and breeds horses in their part of Iowa.  In addition to that Tristan operates a hay business with his brother.  He is very busy but getting help from his 15 cousins helps him to be two places at once and get all the work done. Truly, all of the family support that Tristan has is helping him to succeed in agriculture. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Custom Haying Business HIGH SCHOOL: Creston High School; Creston, Iowa MASCOT: Panthers FFA ADVISOR: Kelsey Bailey CONTACT INFORMATION FOR TRISTAN TRAVIS: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Creston High School Ag. Department's website: Tristan's FFA Advisor's Email Address: kbailey@crestonschools.org  Creston High School's Telephone Number: (641) 782-2116 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: "Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive." U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack  Other Places You Can Listen To Us: D&B Supply Show LISTEN TO US ON SATELLITE RADIO! WE ARE CONTRIBUTORS TO "FFA TODAY" ON RURAL RADIO SIRIUS XM CHANNEL 147! "FFA Today" airs on Rural Radio Sirius XM Channel 147 Saturdays at 7:30 AM Eastern and Sundays at 6:30 PM Eastern. Please let RURAL RADIO know that you like hearing us on their channel!  Here is how to contact them and leave feedback: Email: zacht@rfdtv.com Website:  RuralRadio147.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RURALRADIO147      
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