OFI 047: Meat Rabbit Production | FFA SAE Edition | Ally Babcock | Gilbert High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

If you are interested in this business you will need to start with a quality rabbit hutch!

Introducing Ally Babcock – Gilbert High School FFA!

What a great interview this week.  Ally Babcock is an aspiring entrepreneur, and we were lucky enough to catch her right in the transition of her business.  Ally has been raising and selling show rabbits or “fancy breeds.”  She is now transitioning into selling commercial rabbits for meat production.  She has found a distributor, and now she just has to fulfill the supply.

Ally is extremely well rounded when it comes to her knowledge of her SAE project.  She educated me on breeds, gestation periods and management techniques.  Also, she had extensive knowledge of why her facilities work so well in the extremes of her Iowa climate.  And, she thoroughly understood why her facilities were designed the way that they were.

Ally is just entering her junior year of high school!  She is unbelievably well spoken for a sophomore transitioning to her junior year.  It is very fun to get to know a student this early on in their FFA career.  She has huge potential, and I cannot wait to see how she develops both as a speaker and entrepreneur over the next two years of high school.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: 

Show Rabbits – Entrepreneurship

Meat Rabbits – Entrepreneurship

HIGH SCHOOL:

Gilbert High School, Gilbert, Iowa

MASCOT:

Tigers

FFA ADVISOR:

Jon Davis

Melissa Appel

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ALLY BABCOCK:

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

Ally’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: davisj@gilbert.k12.ia.us or appelm@gilbert.k12.ia.us

Gilbert High School Telephone Number:  515-232-3738

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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