OFI 068: Buy Your First Farm | FFA SAE Edition | Trey Riessen | OA & BCIG High School FFA

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INTRODUCING TREY RIESSEN!

This week we have another amazing FFA student to profile – Trey Riessen!  This young man came highly recommended by his FFA Advisor, Mrs. Taylor Clark.  Trey is 17 years old, and he already owns his own 40 acre farm!  Can you believe that?  How incredible of a story is that?  He absolutely shatters all of the excuses of the rest of us that think we can never achieve the dream of having our own farm.

I know at first blush you think it was given to him.  But, it wasn’t.  Trey got his start farming some marginal areas with his father and grandfather’s equipment.  These were areas that they wanted cleaned up but were not farming themselves.  Trey took advantage of the opportunity and started farming it when he was 15 years old.  Two years later, when a nearby piece of property came for sale Trey was in a position to invest his previous two years’ earnings into the place, and he bought it!

I hope you enjoy hearing this great, agricultural story!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Farming! – He has already purchased his own farm.

HIGH SCHOOL: OA & BCIG High School, Battle Creek, Iowa

MASCOT: Falcons

FFA ADVISOR: Taylor Clark

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR TREY RIESSEN:

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

Trey’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: tclark@oabcig.org

OA & BCIG High School Telephone Number: (712) 364-3371

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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