OFI 070: Mums As A Cash Crop | FFA SAE Edition | Carlie Bergman | Fort Loramie High School FFA

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If you are interested in this business you will have to plant a seed!

INTRODUCING CARLIE BERGMAN!

Carlie Bergman is raising and selling mums for her SAE project.  I found out about her project on the internet through this Sidney Daily News Article.  Carlie is just starting her junior year.  She already has plans about how to grow her business and double her profits.  She is also vertically integrated already!  She produces her own product, makes her own advertising materials, markets her business and sells the products herself.

She is off to a great start!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Production And Sales Of Mums

HIGH SCHOOL: Fort Loramie High School, Fort Loramie, Ohio

MASCOT: Redskins

FFA ADVISOR: Matt Pleiman

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CARLIE BERGMAN:

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

Carlie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: matt.pleiman@loramie.k12.oh.us

Fort Loramie High School Telephone Number: (937) 295-3931

Nebraska Farm Bureau Mini-Grant: LINK

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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