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INTRODUCING JACOB WATKINS!

I spend some time working on a social media site called Linkedin.  As I was perusing the site a while back I came across a post by a business teacher, Kyle Dieppes, at Buffalo Lake Hector Stewart High School in Hector, Minnesota.  He was bragging about one of this students, Jacob Watkins.

It turns out that Jacob had come up with a great business idea.  He was constructing handsome wooden boxes to hold Coleman coolers and selling them.  Mr. Dieppes had put some pictures up, and I got to see first hand how nice of a product that Jacob was producing.  I started pursuing an interview with Jacob at that point.

I finally was able to put that interview together for you, and I hope you enjoy it.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Product Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Buffalo Lake Hector Stewart High School; Hector, Minnesota

MASCOT: Mustangs

FFA ADVISOR: Jill Grams

Business Teacher: Kyle Dieppes

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR JACOB WATKINS:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Buffalo Lake Hector Stewart High School website:

Jacob’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: jgrams@blh.k12.mn.us & kdepiesse@blh.k12.mn.us

Buffalo Lake Hector Stewart High School’s Telephone Number: 320-848-2233

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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