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OFI 100: Pastured Poultry Production | FFA SAE Edition | Davis Fenster | 2015 SAE Grant Recipient | James River High School FFA

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INTRODUCING DAVIS FENSTER!

Davis Fenster is a junior in high school and his FFA chapter’s president.  He is raising pastured poultry in chicken tractors and layers in a hen house.  Davis is also the State of Virginia’s “prepared speaking” winner.  I was very excited to speak with Davis as he was one of 140 winners of a $1,000 grant from the FFA for his supervised agricultural experience.

Davis is raising about 50 broilers in his chicken tractors and 100 layers in his hen house.  He butchers and bags the birds for his customers with his family.  They come and pick the birds up the next day.  Davis is hoping to increase the amount of broilers he is raising with the grant money that he has received.

The grants were just awarded in December of 2015.  I was able to judge several of the applications.  I did not judge Davis’.  However, based on the applications that I did judge I saw the quality of the competition that Davis had.  He obviously stood out with his application.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Pastured Poultry Production & Egg Production

HIGH SCHOOL: James River High School

MASCOT: Knights

FFA ADVISOR: Zach Wakeman

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR DAVIS FENSTER:

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Davis’ FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: zwakeman@bcps.k12.va.us

James River High School’s Telephone Number: (540) 254-1122

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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