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Introducing Cobey Alderden! 

This young man has found a pathway into what could one day be a six figure business with no start up cost at all.

Cobey Alderden lives in an area with a high percentage of retired and elderly residents.  He accurately recognized that many of them no longer want to do their own yard work.  He had his target market identified, now was time to start a business.

As Cobey started working for neighbors in his community, word started to spread, and more work came.  Pretty soon, Cobey had a significant client list and lots of work.  

The cost to Cobey to start this business?  Zero dollars.  He uses the equipment that his clients already have.  What a brilliant way to create your own job and start what could turn into a very significant business.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Turf Grass & Landscape Management

HIGH SCHOOL: Randolph High School; Randolph, Wisconsin

MASCOT: Rockets

FFA ADVISOR: Keith Gundlach

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

Cobey’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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