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OFI 461: How To Start A Custom Show Animal Purchase Business | FFA SAE Edition | Seth Hilfiker | Holtville High School FFA
Category: Business
Duration: 00:00:00
Publish Date: 2018-06-13 01:30:43
Description: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING SETH HILFIKER! Our guest today saw a need that needed to be filled, and he continues to fill it.  Seth Hilfiker lives right on the Mexico border in Southern California.  There is a lot of farming that goes on in his area, but livestock production is not as highly represented. Regardless of the level of livestock production there are several people in the area interested in showing high quality goats, sheep, pigs, etc.  Seth noticed this and started a business going out and finding these show animals for them, purchasing them and bringing them back to the area. Seth conducts this business in two ways.  He either purchases the animals, speculating they will sell or he goes and picks up animals that other people have already chosen.  He has gone as far as Texas to do this, and he is planning on going to college in either Texas or Oklahoma to expand his network in this business and expand it. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Livestock Sales & Service HIGH SCHOOL: Holtville High School; Holtville, California MASCOT: Vikings FFA ADVISOR: Lindsay Cox CONTACT INFORMATION FOR SETH HILFIKER: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Holtville High School Ag. Department's website: Seth's FFA Advisor's Email Address: lcox@husd.net Holtville High School's Telephone Number: 760-356-2926 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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