OFI #248: Starting An Organic Chicken Business | FFA SAE Edition | Faith Rutherford | Payson High School FFA

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INTRODUCING FAITH RUTHERFORD!

Faith Rutherford comes to us from Payson, Arizona.  She is a freshman in high school where her dad is the FFA Advisor.  She is starting an organic chicken business.  Currently the chicks and the feed have been ordered, and she and her father are building their pens.  She is going to start with 100 chicks in early February.  She ordered organic chicken feed from a location in California.

Faith has penciled out her input costs, and her sales price so that she can make a profit.  She plans on butchering all of the chickens at Payson High School and is hoping for assistance from her classmates.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Organic Poultry Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Payson High School; Payson, Arizona

MASCOT: Longhorns

FFA ADVISOR: David Rutherford

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Payson High School Telephone Number: 928-474-2070

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• 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.
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