OFI 1691: Finding A New Purpose And Passion | FFA SAE Edition | Lillie Cagle | Bledsoe County High School FFA

Lillie Cagle is the newly elected Tennessee FFA State Sentinel, and former East Tennessee Regional FFA President. She is also the chapter president of the Bledsoe County FFA and a senior in high school.

Lillie has a very unique story of how she came to be involved in the FFA. From the age of 12 -14 Lillie had some major responsibilities in her family, and even though her family raises cattle and she lives in an agricultural community she had not given any thought to the FFA or even knew what it stood for. However, around the beginning of her freshman year of high school those family responsibilities came to an end, and she was left kind of wondering what to do with her newly discovered free time. That is when the then president of the Bledsoe FFA Chapter invited her to an FFA meeting and told her that he thought it would be good for her. Nothing has been the same since.

Lillie has started an agricultural education project called “Ag Across The Board” aimed at teaching elementary students across the State Of Tennessee about agriculture. She has even run a summer camp to teach about agriculture and received upwards of $15,000 in donations to purchase a trailer and be a mobile agricultural education resource. Lillie is making a huge difference in the world of agriculture, and after hearing this interview you will think so too!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Ag Across The Board

HIGH SCHOOL: Bledsoe County High School, Pikeville, TN

COLLEGE: Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville, TN

HIGH SCHOOL MASCOT: Warriors

FFA ADVISOR: Ronny Collier

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LILLIE CAGLE:

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Lillie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: collierr3@bledsoecountyschools.org

Bledsoe High School Telephone Number: 423-447-6370

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

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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