OFI 023: Sheep Production, Sales & Coaching | FFA SAE Edition | Madision Morgan | Oakdale High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Madison Morgan!

Madison Morgan from Oakdale, California is a student at Oakdale High School.  For her SAE she is raising and selling sheep for 4h and FFA projects.  What was so impressive about Madison is that she did not wait to start.  She has not lived on an acreage for her entire FFA tenure, but she did not allow that stop her from getting involved.  Also, Madison provides excellent customer service.  She meets with her customers and coaches them on fitting and showing the animals she has sold to them!

I grew up about 3 miles away from where Madison currently lives, in Valley Home, California.  Her great Uncle raised sheep in Valley Home, and I actually took sheep course from him in 4H when I was in elementary school.  She is showing and selling sheep with those genetics.  Ironically, when I worked for the Boise Police Department one of my co-workers was raising and selling show sheep.  It turned out that he bought his sheep from Leonard and Karen Bianchi in Valley Home!

I found that out in 2002!  13 years later we are purchasing sheep from him for my daughter, Hattie, to show at the Canyon County Fair this summer.  I was so excited to be buying sheep all the way in Idaho with Bianchi genetics from Valley Home.  Then I contacted the FFA advisor at Oakdale High School and asked for a recommendation on a student to interview.  His recommendation was Madison.  What an absolute irony when I found out that the sheep she is raising and selling have the same genetics as the ones we will have on our farm in about 1 month!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Sheep production and sales…followed up with coaching and instruction on fitting and showing.

HIGH SCHOOL: Oakdale High School, Oakdale, California

MASCOT: Mustangs

FFA ADVISOR: Ed Hartzell

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MADISON MORGAN:

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

Madison’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: ehartzell@ojusd.org

Oakdale High School Telephone Number: (209) 847-3007

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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