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OFI 235: Flapping Your Wings In Wisconsin | FFA SAE Edition | Ashley Erdman | Randolph High School FFA

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If You Want To Raise Chickens, You Will Need Laying Boxes!

Introducing Ashley Erdman! 

Ashley is coming to us from Randolph High School in Randolph, Wisconsin today.  She is raising chickens, both for egg production and to sell as butcher chickens.  She gets by with some help from dad and neighbors when it comes to slaughtering and plucking the chickens.  She markets her eggs with a sign out front of her home, and she has developed quite a word of mouth reputation for broilers as well.  

The cycle of Ashley’s business is interesting.  At school, in her animal science lab, they incubate eggs and hatch out chicks.  When the project is done, the chicks have to go somewhere.  So, Ashley purchases them, takes them home and uses them in her business and SAE.  In addition to that, she is in charge of taking care of the laying flock at her school.  So, she goes full circle with this project.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Egg and Broiler Sales

HIGH SCHOOL: Randolph High School; Randolph, Wisconsin

MASCOT: Rockets

FFA ADVISOR: Keith Gundlach

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

Ashley’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)

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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