OFI 063: Alpaca Wool Production | FFA SAE Edition | Claire Shane | Batesville High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

If you are interested in this business you will need to start with some shears!

INTRODUCING CLAIRE SHANE!

Our guest this week comes to us all the way from Batesville, Indiana(again!).  Claire Shane is in a specialty animal SAE.  She is working for an older couple and assisting them with their Alpacas.  Claire has been working this couple’s farm since she was 13 years old.  As the years have gone by she has received more and more responsibility.  Now she is doing almost everything in the operation.  Only in her junior year, Claire continues to develop her expertise and has seen a lot.  For example, she learned about a parasitic worm that developed on the alpaca’s water.  Now she knows how to keep that from happening.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Specialty Animals SAE – Alpacas

HIGH SCHOOL: Batesville High School, Batesville, Indiana

MASCOT: “Billy The Bulldog”

FFA ADVISOR: Cassie Wallpe

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CLAIRE SHANE:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Batesville High School Ag. Department’s website:

Claire’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: cmumaw@batesville.k12.in.us

Batesville High School Telephone Number: (812) 934-4384

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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