SHOW NOTES

INTRODUCING LANDON WENGER! 

Our guest today is very good at keeping a secret!  At almost the moment that we finished our interview, he ended the call and proposed to his girlfriend!  And, I would not be including this in the show notes if she had not said yes.  Congratulations to the happy couple!

Well, Landon Wenger is certainly laying the foundations for the rest of his life.  At age 19 he has been named as a state winner in Ohio for agricultural sales entrepreneurship proficiency.  This stemmed from him purchasing his own Christmas Tree farm when was just sixteen years of age!  It is called “Wenger’s Winter Greens” and he has been steadily planting trees every year so that he has trees to sell every year.

I have always been curious about how this business works with the slow return on investment.  In today’s episode Landon will help to break all of that down for us.  He will also talk about his vegetable production business and his time in the FFA.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Vegetable Sales and Christmas Tree Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Benjamin Logan High School; Bellefontaine, Ohio

MASCOT: Raiders

FFA ADVISOR: Lora James

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LANDON WENGER:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Benjamin Logan High School Website:

Landon’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: jamesl@benjaminlogan.org

Benjamin Logan High School Telephone Number: 937-592-1666

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:

“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

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