OFI 035: Dairy Heifer Training | FFA SAE Edition | Kristin Nesbitt | Meridian High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Kristin Nesbitt – President, Meridian High School FFA! Episode #35 is another great interview with an FFA student.  Kristin Nesbitt, my second guest from Meridian High School comes highly recommended and is the new president of her FFA chapter.

Kristin is conducting three separate SAE projects:

1. Beef Production
2. Heifer Development and Sales
3. Dairy Heifer Training and Showing

She really is getting the most out of her time in FFA, experimenting with different business models as well as being a leader of leaders!  Kristin is looking forward to possibly medical or veterinary school.  What a great asset she will be to either field!

Kristin is also our first guest to receive an American Bull Shirt from Heritage who has so generously donated this shirt to Kristin as a way of recognizing her for what she is doing in FFA.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production, Heifer Development and Sales & Dairy Heifer Training and Showing

HIGH SCHOOL: Meridian High School, Meridian, Idaho

MASCOT: Warriors!

FFA ADVISOR: Steve Wilder

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KRISTIN NESBITT:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Meridian High School Website:

Kristin’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: wilder.steve@meridianschools.org

Meridian High School Telephone Number: (208)350-4160

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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