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OFI 238: Scrambling For A Calf Leads To A Business | FFA SAE Edition | Kylee Zapalac | Schulenburg High School FFA

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If You Want To Lead Cattle, You Will Need A Good Halter!

Introducing Kylee Zapalac! 

Kylee got involved in raising cattle through a very interesting program available to 4H and FFA Students.  The program is called a calf scramble.  Basically, there are several calves put in a pen with several contestants from 4H and FFA.  However, there are more contestants than calves.  When it is time to start, each of the contestants tries to catch a calf.

If the contestant is successful there is an arrangement where they either get to purchase that calf at a discounted rate, use the calf for a limited amount of time or are given a cash equivalent so they can start their own herd.  It depends on the area where this took place.

In Kylee’s situation this worked just like it was intended. She caught a calf, and it led her to raising more and more cattle.  Now Kylee is in the cattle business, raising angus beef heifers and doing this as her supervised agricultural experience.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Schulenburg High School; Schulenburg, Texas

MASCOT: Shorthorns

FFA ADVISOR: Amy Hartman

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KYLEE: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Schulenburg High School website:

Kylee’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: ahartman@schulenburgisd.net

Schulenburg High School’s Telephone Number: 979-743-3448

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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