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OFI 239: Change Of Venue In Oregon, Now She’s A Cattlewoman | FFA SAE Edition | Whitney Evans | Enterprise High School FFA

SHOW NOTES

If You Want To Raise Herefords, You Will Need To Show Your Pride!

Introducing Whitney Evans! 

Whitney has a very interesting story.  For those of you unfamiliar with the State of Oregon, it is a very different state from west to east.  On the west side of Oregon, which is generally looked at as everything west of the Cascade Mountains you have Portland, the Willamette Valley and the beautiful Oregon Coast.  There is definitely agriculture in the valley and even on the coast.  If you have ever enjoyed Tillamook ice cream or cheese you have experienced Oregon’s coastal agriculture.

When you go east of of the Cascade Mountains you get into serious cattle country.  From the vast, high desert landscapes of Burns and Jordan Valley to the majestic Steens Mountains rising out of the high desert it is vast, open range for cattle.  Just when you think it cannot get any more beautiful you venture into Northeastern Oregon, home of Wallowa Lake, the Eagle Cap Mountains and Enterprise, Oregon.

This unbelievably beautiful area is where Whitney calls home.  I love her story because she has not always lived there.  She spent the first part of her life growing up very near Portland, Oregon.  Portland is one of the largest cities on the West Coast of the United States, and agriculture is not something that pervades the social discussions very frequently.

Whitney’s mother was looking for a change of venue and remembered how beautiful the Enterprise area was.  Thus, the change was made, and Whitney’s life was changed as well.  Whitney has embraced her new home completely.  Now she is raising Polled Hereford Cattle, wearing Carhartt and living a different life.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Breeding

HIGH SCHOOL: Enterprise High School; Enterprise, Oregon

MASCOT: Outlaws

FFA ADVISOR: Stephanie Schofield

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR WHITNEY: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Enterprise High School website:

Whitney’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: sschofie@enterprise.k12.or.us

Enterprise High School’s Telephone Number: 541-426-3193

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 

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