OFI 251: Harvesting And Selling Your Cover Crop | FFA SAE Edition | Raegan Klaassen | Hydro-Eakly High School FFA

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INTRODUCING RAEGAN KLAASSEN!

Raegan comes to us from Hydro, Oklahoma.  She has a very interesting supervised agricultural experience.  In addition to her showing cattle for several years, she now has her own herd of first-calf heifers.  Her father, who is also her FFA advisor, got her started with this herd as a way of saving and paying for college in four years.

When Raegan is not working with her cattle, she is farming.  The primary crop she grows is usually a grain.  In the off-season she plants black eyed peas as a cover crop.  However, she has found a market for the peas, so she is able to make revenue off of the ground she farms, twice per year.  I loved this concept of not just planting a cover crop, but planting one that has market value.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef, Grain & Speciality Crop (black eyed peas) Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Hydro-Eakly High School; Hydro, Oklahoma

MASCOT: Bobcats

FFA ADVISOR: Chris Klaassen

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR RAEGAN KLAASSEN:

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Raegan’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: cklaassen@hydroeakly.k12.ok.us

Hydro-Eakly High School Telephone Number: (405) 663-2774

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  • 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.
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