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INTRODUCING CODY VOSS!
To make money in the cattle industry, you need to be creative. Today's guest, Cody Voss, has found his creative niche. Along with his father they have figured out how to buy bred cows that have missed calving season for one reason or another. They take the cattle home, and sell them back about a month after they calve. The trick here is picking a cow that will act reasonably after having her calf.
Cody and his dad have a circuit of about five auctions they go to looking for these cows. The auctioneers know them and know what they are looking for and can steer them in the right direction. They have figured out who the breeders are that are selling the cows at auction, and they know whose cows are good but just missed a heat cycle and are being sold because they are outside of the calving season. I really like this business model.
In additional to all of this Cody raises sheep and goats. Plus he and his family custom raise hogs in Iowa. This has led Cody many proficiency applications and Stars Over Iowa.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Diversified Livestock
HIGH SCHOOL: Newell-Fonda High School; Newell, Iowa
MASCOT: Mustangs
FFA ADVISOR: Crystal Nieland
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CODY VOSS:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Newell-Fonda High School Ag. Department's website:
Cody's FFA Advisor's Email Address: nielandc@newell-fonda.k12.ia.us
Newell-Fonda High School's Telephone Number: 712.272.3324
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
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