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INTRODUCING DARIN KNOBLOCH!
It is always interesting how student's choose colleges. Just today I learned that one of my friends son's is going to go to Oklahoma University. And you always wonder what was behind the decision? Sports? College Experience? Reputation?
Our guest today describes how he chose his college and his course of study, and it is perfect. In a day and age when so many college age students go into incredible amounts of debt for a degree that has little value in the marketplace, and offers little hope of paying off that debt, it is refreshing to interview a student like Darin Knobloch.
Darin's family operates a nursery businesses in Inwood, Iowa. It is his intention to come back to that business when he is finished with school. So, prior to deciding where to study and what to study, Darin took inventory. He did not take inventory of their plants. He took inventory of his own strengths.
Darin determined that he was strong on the production side of his family's business. And he recognized that his weakest areas were in business. So, he decided to study business and entrepreneurship. Next came the question of where. He chose Lake Area Technical Institute in South Dakota. His research indicated that he would receive just the education he needed to operate the family business here, and it was not going to saddle him with the burden of extreme amounts of debt.
Darin's decision making when it came to pursuing higher education can be a lesson to all graduating high school students that want to go to college.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Nursery Operations
HIGH SCHOOL: West Lyon High School; Inwood, Iowa
MASCOT: Wild Cats
FFA ADVISOR: Craig Winquist
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR DARIN KNOBLOCH:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the West Lyon High School Ag. Department's website:
Darin's FFA Advisor's Email Address: cwinquist@wlwildcats.org
West Lyon High School's Telephone Number: 712-753-4917
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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