SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING HUNTER MATTHAEI!

Our guest today is taking advantage of his ability to grow a variety of decorative crops plus sweet corn.  Hunter Matthaei is able to grow crops on a major highway in his portion of South Dakota.  He has a built in platform for marketing his produce and corn on this stretch of highway.  And he does not take that for granted.

Hunter has built up a reputation over the years and now people in his area know where to go for things like gourds, pumpkins and sweet corn.  The ability to sell produce this way has taught Hunter a lot about both business and human nature.  He gets to deal with a wide variety of people and learns how to meet their individual needs.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Specialty Vegetable Production

HIGH SCHOOL: McCook Central High School; Salem, South Dakota

MASCOT: Cougars

FFA ADVISOR: Terry Reickman

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR HUNTER MATTHAEI:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the McCook Central High School Ag. Department’s website:

Hunter’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: terry.rieckman@k12.sd.us

McCook Central High School’s Telephone Number: (605) 425-2264

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 

Other Places You Can Listen To Us:

D&B Supply Show

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