Coming across exceptional students in the FFA is not hard to do. In fact, it is so easy that eventually you start to take those exceptional students for granted. It is just one great story after another. You come to expect it. Then one day you interview a high school student who tells you that he and his brothers have started a business selling dairy cattle embryos around the world. He has even had farmers from Germany visit his farm to look at the cows the embryos will be coming out of.
The students that I get to meet by creating this podcast do not cease to amaze me. Cole’s business, KCCK Genetics, is one of many that makes me wonder what I was doing in high school and why didn’t I discover entrepreneurship sooner.
SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Dairy Entrepreneurship
HIGH SCHOOL: Maquoketa Valley High School; Dyersville, Iowa
MASCOT: Wildcats
FFA ADVISOR: Dawn Mauser
CONTACT INFORMATION FOR COLE KRUSE:
Click on the picture below to be taken to the Maquoketa Valley High School Ag. Department’s website:
Cole’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: dawnmausser@maquoketa-v.k12.ia.us
Maquoketa Valley High School’s Telephone Number: (563) 922-2091
FFA LINKS:
Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)
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:
“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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