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INTRODUCING WILL SHELBY! 

Will Shelby has grown up around the profession of veterinary sciences.  His father is a large animal vet in the Madill, Oklahoma area, and since the 8th grade Will has been riding and working with his father and other veterinarians in their area.

Will is currently wrapping up his bachelor’s degree in animal science at Oklahoma State University and is applying to vet schools.  He is hoping to also become a large animal veterinarian and work in the rural area of Oklahoma that he calls home.  Will knows the struggles that ranchers in rural parts of Oklahoma face and how difficult that it can be to get a veterinarian when they need one.  Will wants to be there for all the people and the communities that have been there for him while he has been growing up.

Becoming a veterinarian is no easy task.  You need to take very difficult classes, and you have to do very well in them because the competition to get into vet school is so strong.  This has led Will to really push himself to higher and higher levels of academic achievement and achievement in the FFA.

What Will has been doing academically and in the FFA has not gone unnoticed.  He is currently being honored as one of four American Star Finalists in the category of Placement.  This is the elite level for any FFA student, and that is not lost on Will.

Good luck to him and all of the American Star Finalists later this month at the National Convention!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Agricultural Placement

HIGH SCHOOL: Madill High School; Madill, Oklhahoma

MASCOT: Millers

FFA ADVISOR: Bart Harper

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR WILL SHELBY:

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

Will’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: bharper@madillok.com

Madill High School Telephone Number: 580-795-3303

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

Where Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald Can Be Heard:

Member Of The National Association Of Farm Broadcasters