OFI 039: Vineyard Management | FFA SAE Edition | Cole Guerrant | Union High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Cole Guerrant – Union High School FFA!

Cole is an impressive young man for many different reasons.  He just completed high school and a placement SAE that was very entrepreneurial in its nature.  He has been working on a winery since his freshman year,  and now it appears that he knows everything about the business.  He certainly would be prepared to go out and start into this business if he wanted to.

Cole told me that on the winery he prunes, fertilizes, sprays, presses grapes, oversees fermentation, bottles and packages.  Plus he does all the maintenance.

What was even more impressive to me is that Cole is getting read to head off to the Missouri State Technical College in Linn to study as a heavy equipment mechanic.  He plans to continue his work on the winery on the weekends, but in the mean time he is mentoring a new student to take his place at the winery.  What a great accomplishment that he has reached a level of proficiency that he is now mentoring.

I am sure you will just as impressed as I was with Cole Guerrant.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: 

Fruit Production Placement

HIGH SCHOOL:

Union High School, Union, Missouri

MASCOT:

Wildcat

FFA ADVISOR:

Kyle Mabury

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR COLE GUERRANT:

Click on the picture below to be taken to theUnion High School Website:

Cole’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: maburyk@union.k12.mo.us

Union High School Telephone Number: 636-583-8626

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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