OFI 029: Learn To Sell | FFA SAE Edition | Hunter Pinke | Wishek Public School FFA

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Introducing Hunter Pinke!

Hunter Pinke is a young man from Wishek, North Dakota who lives in town and is actively engaged in FFA.  You may recognize Hunter’s last name from episode #17 , our first FFA SAE edition.  Hunter’s mom, Katie Pinke, is a very active agricultural advocate and blogger, and she was our first featured interview in this segment.

Hunter is working in sales at his family’s lumber yard for his SAE.  Sales is the great middle ground between being a full-time entrepreneur and having a job, and it is a great way to learn the skill necessary to be successful in the market place.  Based on my conversation with Hunter, I have no doubt that he will find success.  He is a very well spoken and articulate young man.

Hunter is participating in sports as well as FFA and employment.  He is also striving to become a structural engineer in the future.  He has big goals and a big work ethic.  He is 6’06” tall as a junior in high school and plays forward on the basketball team.

I hope you enjoy this interview with Hunter!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Sales Representative at his family’s lumber yard

HIGH SCHOOL: Wishek Public School, North Dakota

MASCOT: Hunter has two mascots!  Wishek Public School’s mascot is “The Badgers.”  In order to play sports Hunter participates in a “sports cooperative.”  The mascot for the sports cooperative is “The Mustangs!”

FFA ADVISOR: Rocky Brown

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HUNTER PINKE:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Wishek Public School Website:

Hunter’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: Rocky.J.Brown@sendit.nodak.edu

Wishek Public School Telephone Number:  (701) 452-2995

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 

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