OFI 072: Becoming A Farmer | FFA SAE Edition | Kendall Tidman | Miami R-1 High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING KENDALL TIDMAN!

Kendall is a junior at Miami R-1 High School in Missouri.  He and his family just moved to their own farm four years ago.  Kendall has now started his own cattle herd while working for both his father and a neighbor and working with their cattle herds.  Kendall said something to me during the interview that so many FFA students say.  He has been “saving his money.”  He knows how to save!  So, he is going to purchase more cattle this fall and grow his herd.  I hope you enjoy getting to know Kendall Tidman.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Livestock Production – Starting His Own Cattle Herd

HIGH SCHOOL: Miami R-1 High School, Amoret, Missouri

MASCOT: The Eagles!

 FFA ADVISOR: Mark Allen

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KENALL TIDMAN:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Miami R-1 High School Ag. Department’s website:

Kendall’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: mallen@miamik12.net

Miami R-1 High School Telephone Number: 660-267-3484

Nebraska Farm Bureau Mini-Grant: LINK

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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