OFI 927: Combining What You Know With What You Love | FFA SAE Edition | JaLeigh Oldenburg | Mulhall-Orlando High School FFA

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I am very blessed to have had so many guests of the Off-Farm Income Podcast go on to success at very high levels. Jaleigh Oldenburg, who originally appeared on episode #689, found herself as an American Star Farmer Finalist this year! That is an incredible accomplishment, and JaLeigh certainly deserved to be there.

Not only has JaLeigh developed a great business with her own flock of Southdown Sheep, but she teaches others how to show by putting on clinics. It is easy to see how she rose to the top with this project, and why she can always call herself an American Star Finalist!

INTRODUCING JALEIGH OLDENBURG!

I get to speak with another student who is a result of the Mulhall-Orlando FFA Chapter today, and I have to say that I am impressed with this chapter and the students that I have spoke with from here.

On this episode I am speaking with Jaleigh Oldenburg. Jaleigh is now attending Northern Oklahoma College and studying agricultural science. She has been working with sheep since she can remember, and she has really developed a love for working with these livestock.

Today Jaleigh has her own flock of Southdown sheep with about 200 head to her name. She is busy raising her sheep and putting on showing clinics when she is not at college.

All of her efforts have led her to some pretty significant recognition. Jaleigh was an Oklahoma State Proficiency winner in sheep production in 2018, and she was also selected as the Oklahoma State Star Farmer in the same year. The following fall Jaleigh was a national proficiency winner in sheep production at the National FFA Convention.

Jaleigh is a student to watch, and she is having great success!

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Sheep Production

HIGH SCHOOL: Mulhall-Orlando High School; Orlando, Oklahoma

MASCOT: Panthers

FFA ADVISOR: Tonya Middleton

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR JALEIGH OLDENBURG:

Click on the picture below to be taken to the Mulhall-Orlando High School website:

Jaleigh’s FFA Advisors’ Email Addresses: tmiddleton@m-ops.org

Mulhall-Orlando High School’s Telephone Number: 580-455-2211

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