Mary is my state neighbor, just living a couple hundred miles away in Northern Nevada. For too many years when I drove through her area I only saw it from the interstate and didn’t think much of it. Then one of my friends got me off of the interstate and into the mountains. What an absolutely beautiful state.
Mary and her family raise cattle on the open range in Elko County. She is learning about leasing public land from the Bureau Of Land Management. It can take hundreds of acres to support just one cow with her calf in some of these rangelands. There is rich cattle ranching history here, and real cowgirls!
Mary’s work with cattle and her time in FFA led her to be a Nevada proficiency winner in beef production. Here’s to more students like Mary pursuing agriculture.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production
HIGH SCHOOL: Spring Creek High School; Spring Creek, Nevada
MASCOT: Spartans
FFA ADVISOR: Ty Smith
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MARY TOMERA:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Spring Creek High School Ag. Department’s website:
Mary’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: tsmith@ecsdnv.net
Spring Creek High School’s Telephone Number: 775-753-5575
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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