OFI 2071: “Going Hard” In The FFA, Academics & Sports | FFA SAE Edition | Peyton Gay | Deane Bozeman FFA

Peyton Gay is the sentinel for the Deane Bozeman FFA Chapter, and he is a remarkable young man. A natural athlete, gifted student and very hard worker Peyton has managed to put together an FFA and high school experience that will be rivaled by few.

Peyton has grown up on his grandparent’s farm in Northern Florida that they purchased because of their love for animals of all types. Never having a profit motive, Peyton’s grandmother has cared for and rescued multiple different species of wildlife and livestock on the farm since it first began. This is how Peyton grew up as well, and it led to his supervised agricultural experience raising, incubating and giving away Sebastopol Geese, which are listed as a threatened species.

This influence has resulted in Peyton pursuing a career as a veterinarian. He is also pursuing his dream of playing football for Texas A&M in College Station. He has been awarded a “walk on scholarship” which means that all of his football activities will be paid for but not his academics. However, Peyton believes that through his academics and pursuits in the FFA that he will be able to have a full-ride academic scholarship! It is an amazing story and one that I am really looking forward to seeing develop from an academic as well as an athletic perspective.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Poultry Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Deane Bozeman High School; Southport, Florida

MASCOT: Bucks

FFA ADVISOR: Becky Peltonen

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR PEYTON GAY:

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

Peyton’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: peltorb@bay.k12.fl.us

Deane Bozeman High School Telephone Number: (850) 767-1300

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