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OFI 182: Mum’s And Chrysanthemum’s Are The Same Thing? | FFA SAE Edition | Wyatt Standridge | Kelly High School FFA

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If you are interested in this business you will have to plant a seed!

Introducing Wyatt Standridge!  Wyatt is the supervisor of his high schools chrysanthemum production facility.  You can see him above applying a chemical to the plants at his school. All during the summer he has to manage the facility and keep the plants growing and healthy.  Then he coordinates a sale that will take this place this fall, going through October.  He coordinates much of the business side of the sale as well, when they reach that time of year. Wyatt is also his chapter’s reporter and quickly becoming an ambassador for what his chapter is doing. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Managing the chrysanthemum production facility at Kelly High School in Benton, Missouri HIGH SCHOOL: Kelly High School; Benton, Missouri MASCOT: Hawks FFA ADVISOR: Jeff Scherer

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR WYATT STANDRIDGE:

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

Wyatt’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jeff.scherer@kellyhawks.org

Kelly High School’s Telephone Number: 573-545-3541

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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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