OFI 096: Growing & Selling Poinsettias | FFA SAE Edition | Dale Fisher | Ripon Christian High School FFA

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INTRODUCING DALE FISHER!

Dale is a freshman in high school who is starting his own niche plant business.  He is growing poinsettias to sell at Christmas time as well as mums to be sold on Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.  Dale was a featured guest who appeared on FFA Today.  He is just getting started in this business and has several years of FFA ahead of hi to develop this project.

I hope you enjoy getting to know Dale Fisher.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Growing and Selling Poinsettias

HIGH SCHOOL: Ripon Christian High School

MASCOT: Knights

FFA ADVISOR: Mrs. Allison Hoover

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR DALE FISHER:

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Dale’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: AHoover@rcschools.com

Ripon Christian High School’s Telephone Number: 209-599-2155

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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.

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• 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.”

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