SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING DYLAN LAVERELL!

Have you ever heard of NSIP’s?  Until I did this interview, I never had.  But I tell you who had, and that is our guest, Dylan Laverell.  Dylan is looking for a way to find his niche in the sheep business.  He explained to me that NSIP’s are like EPD’s in the cattle business.  However, in the sheep business NSIP’s go across breeds.

He is trying to help get this going in the sheep industry.  Along the way he is also building the genetics in his beef herd.  He is artificially inseminating his cattle with semen from Pacesetter, trying to do just that.  I look forward to seeing Dylan at the top of his breed industry one day.  Until then, he will keep innovating.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef & Sheep Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Sweet Grass County High School; Big Timber, Montana

MASCOT: Herders

FFA ADVISOR: Casey & Geneva Lunceford

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR DYLAN LAVERELL:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Sweet Grass County High School Ag. Department’s website:

Dylan’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: luncefordc@sgchs.com

Sweet Grass County High School’s Telephone Number: 406.932.5993

FFA LINKS:

National FFA Organization

Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE’s)

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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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