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 122: Hop Down The Bunny Trail With The FFA | FFA SAE Edition | Kenzie Babcock | Meridian High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

If you want to get started in this business you will need a quality rabbit hutch!

Introducing Kenzie Babcock:

Let me introduce you to Kenzie Babcock from Meridian Idaho.  She is raising min-rex rabbits, the softest rabbits around.  She lives in town and found a way to participate in FFA through the raising of rabbits.  Kenzie loves rabbits and picked this breed for the softness of the fur.  Kenzie is now selling rabbits to other students and 4H members to show.  Also, she has seen as spike in demand for her rabbits due to the Easter holiday coming up, and she is already out of inventory!

Kenzie is marketing her rabbit business through Craigslist and her own website.  I hope you enjoy getting to know Kenzie.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Rabbit Breeding And Selling, Featuring Mini-Rex’s

HIGH SCHOOL: Meridian High School, Meridian, Idaho

MASCOT: Warriors!

FFA ADVISOR: Elizabeth Russell

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR KENZIE BABCOCK:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Meridian High School Website:

Kenzie’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: Russell.Elizabeth@westada.org

Kenzie’s Facebook Page: Fatty’s Rabbitry

Kenzie’s Website: LINK

Meridian High School Telephone Number: (208)350-4160

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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