SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING ANSLEE HEARD! 

One of the things that I find most appealing about interviewing FFA student entrepreneurs every week is the passion that they have for what they do, and how nothing scares them or seems impossible.  If I had to rank them by category, today’s category might be in the top spot for passion.

Anslee Heard is a barrel racer.  She has a passion for horses and a passion for competition.  She mirrors what I see every time I get to interview one of these young ladies who likes to go fast on her horse – passion.  This passion has led her to being a state proficiency winner in equine science.

In Anslee’s case she had to make a deal with her parents for her to be able to pursue this sport.  So, she trades her labor on their farm in order to be able to have the funding and support to compete in this manner.  Anslee is off to college now, but still wants to keep a firm connection to horses and barrel racing

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Horse Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Wadley High School; Wadley, Alabama

MASCOT: Bulldogs

FFA ADVISOR: Brittany Sutton

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ANSLEE HEARD:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Wadley High School Website:

Anslee’s’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: bsutton@randolphboe.org

Wadley High School Telephone Number: (256) 395-2286

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:

“The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue

Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard:

Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters