OFI 1764: Fodder Production | FFA SAE Edition | Nancy Schiffer | Kuna High School FFA | Re-Cap Episode

On tomorrow’s Ag Business Episode we are profiling a farmer who is feeing everything with fodder. This individual has really revolutionized fodder production as a feed source for his livestock. This made me think of the very first time I heard of fodder, and that was during an interview with Nancy Schiffer of the Kuna FFA Chapter in 2015. So, we are brining it back for you today as a lead in to tomorrow’s episode.

Below are the original show notes.

INTRODUCING NANCY SCHIFFER!

This week we have another local guest. Nancy Schiffer is an impressive young woman from our hometown of Kuna, Idaho. She has a market lamb, entrepreneurship SAE. Last year she produced barley fodder for animal forage for her SAE project. She went all the way to the National FFA Convention with that project. Nancy and her whole family were very helpful to us this year in getting Hattie’s lamb read for the fair.

Nancy will continue her market lamb SAE project for her senior year this coming fall. After graduation it is off to the Navy for Nancy. She has already enlisted, and she knows when and where she is going to basic training. I could not be prouder to have this impressive young lady on the podcast.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Market Lamb Production – Past: fodder production for animal forage

HIGH SCHOOL: Kuna High School, Kuna, Idaho

MASCOT: Kavemen

FFA ADVISOR: Joe Blackstock

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NANCY SCHIFFER:

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

Nancy’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jblackstock@kunaschools.org

Kuna High School Telephone Number: 208.955.0200

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