OFI 1824: Making The Best Of A Bad Situation | FFA American Star Finalist | Lance Moritz | Streator Township High School FFA

Lance Moritz is a 2023 American Star Finalist in the category of Agricultural Placement.  Lance was also previously a guest on the Off-Farm Income Podcast in 2019.  Since that time, Lance has been through a lot.  He has continued to work in and develop both aspects of his supervised agricultural experiences, and he had a kidney transplant!  The transplant took him out of the field for several months, but it gave him the opportunity to look at the behind the scenes portion of running his families farm and landscaping business.

Lance just received his degree in Agronomy from Illinois Valley Community College in May, and he is now taking on more responsibility on his families farm.  In today’s episode Lance I spend some time catching up, and I spend some time congratulating him for this outstanding accomplishment.

Lance’s original show notes are below:

SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING LANCE MORITZ!

Our guest today is our second guest in a row from Streator Township High School.  Lance Moritz is a 4th generation farmer on his families land in Illinois.  He is descended from German immigrants, and they are still going strong.

Lance’s father is farming the ground and running a lawn care business as well as a trucking service to support the farming endeavor.  Lance is very involved in both businesses as well as the farm.  Every year he is given more and more of the lawn care customers to handle as his own accounts.  This teaches Lance about running the business and every aspect of the business.

Lance has a strong desire to continue on the farming legacy and be involved in agriculture.  I am excited to see where he goes with what he has in front of him.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Diversified Horticulture

HIGH SCHOOL: Streator Township High School; Streator Township, Illinois

MASCOT: Bulldogs

FFA ADVISOR: Riley Hintzsche

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LANCE MORITZ:

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

Lance’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: rhintzsche@streatorhs.org

Streator Township High School Telephone Number: 815-672-0545

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:

“The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue

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