OFI 803: Raising Chickens To Supply The Family Bakery With Eggs | FFA SAE Edition | Cleone McPherson | Meeker High School FFA

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SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING CLEONE MCPHERSON!

We get to hear a great story of entrepreneurship today. Cleone McPherson’s parents decided to move to Colorado from Utah some time back and start a bakery. Since that time, Cleone has been working in the family business.

Cleone saw an opportunity to combine what she was doing in the FFA with what her parents were doing in business. To create the baked goods needed for a bakery, lots of eggs are needed. So, Cleone started raising chickens to supply those eggs.

Cleone found out about the availability of SAE grants, and she applied for one to help grow her flock and help the business. She was awarded this grant, and that has led her deeper into the production of eggs for White River Bakery.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Egg Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Meeker High School; Meeker, Colorado

MASCOT: Cowboys

FFA ADVISOR: Denee Dinwiddie

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR CLEONE MCPHERSON:

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Cleone’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: denee.dinwiddie@meeker.k12.co.us

Meeker High School Telephone Number: 970.878.9070

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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.
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