Our guest today has been learning a lot about responsibility and business for several years already. When Makenna Greenwald was just 11 years old her dad set she and her sister up with a swather and got them going in their own business. However, he did not just buy it for them, he helped them develop a plan in which they would buy the machine with their profits.
Fast foward to today. Makenna is now studying agricultural business and marketing at the University of Wyoming. She is the former chapter president of the Torrington-Lingle FFA Chapter in Lingle, Wyoming, and she still has her own custom swathing business.
Makenna has a passion for agriculture, and she is highly motivated to share that passion when she completes her agricultural degrees from the University of Wyoming.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Custom Swathing Business
HIGH SCHOOL: Lingle High School; Lingle, Wyoming
MASCOT: Bull Doggers
FFA ADVISOR: Jason Groene
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MAKENNA GREENWALD:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Torrington-Lingle FFA website:
Makenna’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jgroene@goshen1.org
Lingle High School’s Telephone Number: (307) 837-2296
FFA LINKS:
Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
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:
“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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