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 130: Get Your Pig Business Going! | FFA SAE Edition | Nicole Thomas | Fort Pierce/Westwood High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

Introducing Nicole Thomas! 

Nicole is the first FFA student that I have had on from the State of Florida.  She is the president of her chapter at Fort Pierce/Westwood High School.  Nicole is also a recipient of a $1,000 SAE grant in 2015!  She is using artificial insemination to breed her Yorkshire gilt, and she does it herself.

This young lady is learning a ton about animal production as well as business and leadership.  I hope you enjoy getting to know Nicole Thomas.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Breeding And Raising Pigs To Sell As Show Animals

HIGH SCHOOL: Fort Pierce, Westwood High School; Fort Pierce, Florida

MASCOT: Panthers

FFA ADVISOR: Jenna McDaniel

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NICOLE THOMAS:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Fort Pierce/Westwood High School Website:

Nicole’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: JENNA.MCDANIEL@stlucieschools.org

Fort Pierce/Westwood High School Telephone Number: 772-468-5400

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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