OFI 1322: Replay OFI 229: Direct Produce Sales Success Story | FFA SAE Edition | Levi Alsum & Alsum Sweet Corn | Randolph High School FFA

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Today I bring to you a replay of an interview I did with an FFA member who is working hard to keep his 100-year family farm operating. They specialize in vegetable roadside stands. This is a fun interview you don’t want to miss!

Original Show Notes:

I absolutely loved this interview. What a great business model this family has on a farm they have been working for over 100 years! Alsum Sweet Corn sounds like about the funnest place to be involved in agriculture during the summer time. It makes me wish I lived in Wisconsin.

Levi Alsum has a lot of responsibility on his family’s farm, where they specialize in sweet corn but also sell many other vegetables and fruits to customers at five different roadside stands. This is a big operation, and the planting and variety of sweet corn has to be timed so that customers have the longest possible amount of time to purchase sweet corn from Levi and his family.

Labor Day is their busiest weekend with lines of people there to purchase corn, watermelons and everything else for their family cookouts. You have to listen to this episode and get inspired!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Direct Sales Of Sweet Corn And Other Vegetables And Fruit

HIGH SCHOOL: Randolph High School; Randolph, Wisconsin

MASCOT: Rockets

FFA ADVISOR: Keith Gundlach

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LEVI: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Randolph High School website:

Levi’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: gundlachk@rsdwi.org

Randolph High School’s Telephone Number: 920-326-2425

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