OFI 1803: Finding Your Perfect Place In High School | FFA SAE Edition – Featured Freshman | Ashlin Havumaki | Medford High School FFA

Ashlin Havumaki is just getting ready to start her sophomore year of high school and her third year of FFA. As a lover of animals, Ashlin and her family keep all sorts of livestock and fowl on her grandparents farm just a few minutes from her home. And when she was going into the 8th Grade, a friend of her father’s, who was also an FFA advisor, suggested the FFA for Ashlin.

Ashlin has definitely found her perfect place. Her fascination with animals fits very well within the FFA, and it allows her to turn that passion into an academic pursuit with her supervised agricultural experience. It also opens many other doors such as public speaking and career development events.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Poultry & Sheep Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Medford High School; Medford, Minnesota

MASCOT: Tigers

FFA ADVISOR: Tim Larson

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ASHLIN HAVUMAKI:

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

Ashlin’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: tlarson@medfordtigers.org

Medford High School’s Telephone Number: 507-214-6353

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