OFI 1684: The Pursuit Of Entrepreneurship | FFA SAE Edition | Rylee Terveen | Bridgewater-Emery High School FFA

Rylee Terveen is her FFA Chapter’s President, a national Bronze Proficiency Award winner and a driven entrepreneur. Growing up in a family of agricultural entrepreneurs, Rylee knows what direction she wants to take for her future career. She will be graduating high school this year, and then it is off to South Dakota State University to study entrepreneurship.

There is a family business already established that Rylee can move into. As a matter of fact, she plans on taking it over along with her sister and running their families hunting lodge. However, it is a seasonal business, and, maybe more importantly, it is not of Rylee’s making. Rylee knows she wants to be self-employed, and she knows that she wants to create something of her own. So, when college is done and when it is time to move into her career, she will be forming a business based on the knowledge she already has and the knowledge that she has yet to gain.

SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Outdoor Recreation, Ag Education & Wildlife/Fisheries Management

HIGH SCHOOL: Bridgewater-Emery High School; Emery, South Dakota

MASCOT: Huskies

FFA ADVISOR: Alex Toupal

CONTACT INFORMATION FOR RYLEE TERVEEN:

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Rylee’s FFA Advisor’s Email Address: Alex.Toupal@k12.sd.us

Bridgewater-Emery High School’s Telephone Number: 605-449-4271

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:

“Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive.”

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack