OFI 088: Raising & Selling Silky Chickens | FFA SAE Edition | Makayla Kannapel | Seneca High School FFA

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INTRODUCING MAKAYLA KANNAPEL!

This week we introduce Makayla Kannapel.  Makayla lives in the city.  She got exposed to agriculture through FFA at Seneca High School in Louisville, KY.  She is now raising “silky chickens.”  She is breeding them and preparing to sell them.  She is preparing to graduate this year, and was a pleasure to speak with.

Makayla is a wonderful example of how FFA touches lives.  She lives in an apartment in Louisville, but through FFA she has the opportunity to raise her own livestock.  Now she has set her sites on becoming a veterinarian, and she is preparing to head off to Murray State University on that journey.

Best of luck to you Makayla!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Hatching, Selling and Showing Silky Chickens

HIGH SCHOOL: Seneca High School, Louisville, Kentucky

MASCOT: Redhawks

FFA ADVISOR: Mrs. Bethany Mattingly

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR MAKAYLA KANNAPEL:

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Makayla’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: bethany.mattingly@jefferson.kyschools.us

Seneca High School’s Telephone Number: (502) 485-8323

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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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