OFI 076: Producing Hearty Sheep | FFA SAE Edition | Ross Blattner | Kuna High School FFA

OFI 076: Producing Hearty Sheep | FFA SAE Edition | Ross Blattner | Kuna High School FFARoss Blattner Post Photo

SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING ROSS BLATTNER!

Ross Blattner is a local interview for me.  He is currently serving as the chapter historian for the Kuna High School FFA Chapter in my hometown.  Ross is in both the sheep and cattle business.  He is marketing his rams to large sheep producers who run their sheep in public ground in Idaho.  Sheep production out here requires hearty animals.  There are very real dangers to the flocks.  In the West the sheep get moved overland, and they face danger from wildfire, coyotes and wolves.  Plus they go a long distance between water.  So, Ross has to make sure the rams that he is selling can stand up to these conditions.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Sheep Production – Range Sheep Sales; Beef Production – Heifer Sales

HIGH SCHOOL: Kuna High School FFA

MASCOT: Kaveman

 FFA ADVISOR: Joe Blackstock

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ROSS BLATHER:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Kuna High School Ag. Department’s website:

Kuna High School

Nancy’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jblackstock@kunaschools.org

Kuna High School Telephone Number: 208.955.0200

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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  1. Jack Blattner

    October 14, 2015

    Thanks Matt for listening to Ross. I have a couple of names of students who you might be interested in for your pod casts….let me know if you need them. Thanks again!
    Kristen Nesbitt
    Kyle Schmidt
    Andrew Heikkila
    Clayton Christenson
    Jessica Kohntopp

    • Matt Brechwald

      October 14, 2015

      Thanks Jack. I’ve already interviewed Kristen once, so I will probably not be able to interview here again before the end of the year. Do you know what the rest of the students are doing for their SAE projects?

  2. Jack Blattner

    October 14, 2015

    Also,,,,this one might be a good one….

    Zach Phillips
    208-409-9097