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OFI 233: The Future Of This FFA Student Is “Up In The Air” As An Ag Pilot | FFA SAE Edition | Tucker Smith | Bonner’s Ferry FFA

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If You Want To Be A Pilot, You Are Going To Need Some Sweet Aviator Glasses!

Introducing Tucker Smith! 

Tucker is a senior at Bonner’s Ferry High School and is showing pigs for his supervised agricultural experience. But just like our previous guest from Bonner’s Ferry, Brittany Spangler, he has an interest outside of his SAE that takes special talent and experience.

Tucker has his sites set on being an agricultural pilot.  He is interested in the technical flying that comes with agricultural application.  He is already doing the ground work needed to become a pilot and has taken the controls of airplane himself.  He is planning on continuing his education after high school at Idaho State University and studying aircraft maintenance for when the day comes that he has to maintain his own aircraft.

I hope you enjoy getting to know Tucker Smith.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Raising, Showing And Selling Pigs

HIGH SCHOOL: Bonner’s Ferry High School; Bonner’s Ferry, Idaho

MASCOT: Badgers

FFA ADVISOR: Julie Smith

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR TUCKER: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Bonner’s Ferry High School website:

Tucker’s FFA Advisors’ Email Address: julie.smith@mail.bcsd101.com

Bonner’s Ferry High School’s Telephone Number: (208) 267-3149

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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