I created “The Profitable SAE Student Workbook” to help FFA Advisors teach marketing methods to their students and to help FFA Students succeed in their entrepreneurship SAE’s. I hope you find this product as beneficial as all of the interviews I conducted to create it were to me!

OFI 114: Middle SchoolerSells His Own Pork At The Farmer’s Market | FFA SAE Edition | Will Aycock | Albertville Middle School FFA

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INTRODUCING WILLIAM “WILL” AYCOCK!

I discovered William “Will” Aycock in an article from the Sand Mountain Reporter in Arkansas.  I had been eager to interview more students who were raising pigs, and I saw that Will had been awarded one of the $1,000 SAE grants from National FFA in 2015.  And, he was still in middle school.  So, I reached out to his FFA advisor, and discovered that his father, Gary Aycock, is one of his advisors.

Will is a fantastic young gentleman.  He is a great speaker, and he definitely is a self-appointed ambassador for pork production in 4H and FFA.  One of his goals is to encourage other students to take up pigs when it comes to show animals.  Also, Will is already completely vertically integrating his efforts.  He is farrowing and raising his own pigs.  Then he is selling pigs to other students as show stock, and he is keeping some back and finishing them.  He is going to have the finished pigs butchered, and then he is going to sell the cuts of meat at a local farmer’s market.

Will is using the proceeds from the grant that he was awarded to purchase his heard boar, and to keep producing fantastic pigs!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Raising and Direct Marketing Pork

HIGH SCHOOL: Albertville Middle School, Albertville, Alabama

MASCOT: Aggie’s

FFA ADVISOR: Mr. Gary Aycock

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR WILL AYCOCK: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Albertville Middle School website:

Will’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: garyaycock@albertk12.org, hgolden@albertk12.org, and mwhisenant@albertk12.org

Albertville Middle School’s Telephone Number: 256-878-2341

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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