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OFI 057: FFA SAE Edition | Thomas Jefferson | The Agrarian Creed | Passion For Agriculture

SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING THE AGRARIAN CREED!

This week’s episode is a little different than normal.  There is no guest this week, and we are discussing “The Agrarian Creed.”  This episode was inspired by an article that I read in the Idaho Farm Bureau Quarterly by Stewart Truelsen.  I thought this was very relevant to the FFA.  First, the FFA has its own creed called “The FFA Creed.”  Second, students who are considering or have already chose agriculture as a career should know how deeply rooted the value of agriculture in the United States is.  Last, all of us who are drawn to agriculture but cannot really explain why, should know that it is part of our national make up.

We also discuss the “Sons Of The American Revolution” and how I recently became a member.  Agriculture is patriotic and one of the original professions of the civilized world.  I hope you enjoy this discussion of passion for agriculture and “The Agrarian Creed.”

THOMAS JEFFERSON, AGRICULTURAL QUOTES: Taken From the website: The Backyard Provider

“Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.”

“Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as to violate natural right.  The earth is given as a common stock for man to labor and live on.  The small landowners are the most precious part of a state.”

“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny”.

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