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Introducing Nathan Mehrer! 

One of the really fun parts of interviewing FFA Students on this show is when you get to see the progression of development with the students.  My interview with Nathan Mehrer did just that.

As you can see from the title this young man knows how to work and has been doing so for some time.  You can also see how one thing has built upon the other.  He is a junior in high school and already has a significant set of skills, work ethic and resume.  This is one person you don’t have any worries about going on to be successful in life.

Nathan started mowing lawns when he was very young.  That progressed and built upon itself to the point that he started to be very busy.  As time went on he took a job at a lumber yard in his hometown.  He was able to use the work ethic and business skills he developed in his own lawn business to make him successful working for an employer.

Nathan is in the boy scouts, and he has achieved the level of Eagle Scout.  If you are not familiar with scouting, this is a significant accomplishment that is only awarded after a public service project.

For Nathan’s public service project he decided to construct a hunting blind for people with disabilities.  He used his knowledge from running his own business, his new knowledge from working in the lumber yard and organized an effort to get this done.

Because of Nathan’s ideas and know how there are people who get a chance to hunt and experience the great outdoors who otherwise would be unable to.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Turf Grass and Lumber Management

HIGH SCHOOL: Monroe City R-1 High School; Monroe City, Missiouri

MASCOT: Panters

FFA ADVISOR: Keriann Brandt

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR NATHAN MEHRER:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Monroe City R-1 High School Website:

Nathan’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: kbrandt@monroe.k12.mo.us

Monroe R-1 High School Telephone Number: (573) 735-4631

Article About Nathan’s Eagle Scout Project: LINK

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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