OFI 665: How To Sell Your Chicken In Grocery Stores | FFA SAE Edition | Annamarie Stone | Centralia High School FFA

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INTRODUCING ANNAMARIE STONE!

Have you ever met somebody with no fear and a can-do attitude? If not, you get to, today.

Annamarie Stone is just that type of person, and she is just getting ready to start her sophomore year of high school. Why do I say this about this young lady? In addition to starting her own herd of Charolais cattle, showing pigs and showing sheep she has another enterprise.

Annamarie started her own business called “Stoney Creek Country Fresh Chickens“. She raises pastured poultry and sells birds to customers who want their chicken raised that way. Annamarie decided that she wanted to sell her chicken in grocery stores as well. So, as a freshman in high school she got dressed nicely, walked into two separate grocery stores and requested to speak with the freezer case manager.

By the time Annamarie was done, she was selling her pastured poultry in two separate grocery stores! When I asked Annamarie how she did this she had a very simple explanation. The worst that they could tell you is “no”, and if they don’t like your idea the grocery store down the street probably will.

This is an enterprising entrepreneur in the making!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Diversified Livestock

HIGH SCHOOL: Centralia High School; Centralia, Missouri

MASCOT: Panthers

FFA ADVISOR: Scott Stone

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ANNAMARIE STONE:

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Annamarie’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: Scott.Stone@catnet.gen.mo.us

Centralia High School’s Telephone Number: (573) 682-3508

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:

“The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue