SHOW NOTES:

INTRODUCING BAILEY SMITH!

What can I say about today’s guest other than I am jealous.  Let me explain.  Bailey Smith is currently studying agricultural business at Clarendon College in Clarendon, Texas.  When she is not at school she returns to her family’s ranch outside of Mosquero, New Mexico.  With her father and the rest of the family, Bailey helps to manage thousands of head of cattle on their ranch in Northeast New Mexico.

Why am I jealous?  Well, she lives right in the middle of a ton of Western history and Western folklore.  She runs cattle in the part of New Mexico that the Goodnight/Loving Cattle Trail comes through.  She is right on the western edge of the Llano Estacado which was only traversable by the Comanche and Kiowa for decades as they were pursued by Texas Rangers and later the U.S. Cavalry.

When it comes to Western folklore, many books have been written about this area, and many movies have been filmed in this region.  If you read or watched the epic, Lonesome Dove you will recognize the Llano Estacado as the place where Gus had to go to rescue Jenny from Blue Duck.  If you watched No Country For Old Men or Hell Or High Water those movies were filmed largely in this region and to Bailey’s west in Las Vegas, New Mexico.

So, I am jealous.  Bailey gets to live a life as close to the Old West that is possible in 2018.  I think you will like hearing about it.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Mosquero High School FFA; Mosquero, New Mexico

MASCOT: Pirates

FFA ADVISOR: Lynn Ray

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR BAILEY SMITH:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Mosquero High School website:

Bailey’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses:  lyndar@mosquero.net

Mosquero High School’s Telephone Number: (575) 673-2271

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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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