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Future Farmers of America
Bringing agricultural sciences to life in & out of class
Press Release
The National FFA Organization is an integral part
of agricultural education by
helping make classroom instruction come to life through
realistic, hands-on applications. FFA members embrace
concepts taught in agricultural science classrooms nationwide, build valuable skills
through hands-on experiential
learning and each year demonstrate their proficiency in
competitions based on realworld agricultural skills.
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership,
personal growth and career
success through agricultural
education.
Today’s FFA
Today’s FFA has evolved
in response to expanded opportunities available in the
agricultural industry and its
needs to hire skilled and competent employees for more
than 300 careers. Today’s
FFA helps students prepare
for careers in business, marketing, science, communications, education, horticulture,
production, natural resources,
forestry and many other di-
verse fields.
Agriculture
Education
Agricultural
education
prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of informed choices in
the global agriculture, food,
fiber and natural resources
systems. The agricultural
education program provides
a well-rounded, practical approach to learning through
three components: Classroom
education in agricultural topics such as plant and animal
sciences, horticulture, forestry, agrimarketing and more;
hands-on supervised agricultural career experience such
as starting a business or working for an established company; and FFA, which provides
leadership opportunities and
tests students’ agricultural
skills. What are the goals for
agricultural education? The
goals for agricultural education are premier leadership,
personal growth, career success.
career success. Agricultural
education instruction is delivered through three major
components, referred to as the
Three Circle Model – classroom and laboratory instruction (contextual learning),
supervised agricultural experience programs (work-based
learning) and student-leadership organizations (National
FFA Organization).
making it an integral part of
public agricultural instruction
under the National Vocational
Education Acts. FFA receives
no federal funding. The U.S.
Department of Education provides leadership and helps set
direction for FFA as a service
to state and local agricultural
education programs.
History
What’s an FFA
chapter?
FFA was organized nationally in 1928 in Kansas
City, Mo. In 1950, Congress
granted FFA a federal charter,
FFA operates on local, state
and national levels. Student
members belong to chapters
organized at the local school
level. Agriculture educators
serve as chapter advisors.
What’s a state FFA
association?
Chapters are organized under state associations headed
by an advisor and executive
secretary, often employees of
the state department of education. State FFA associations
conduct programs and host
annual state FFA conventions.
What’s the National
FFA Organization?
The National FFA Organization is governed by a board
of directors, charters state
associations and provides
direction, program materials
and support for local chapters
and state FFA associations.
Its headquarters are in Washington, D.C., and its business
operation center is based in
Indianapolis.
FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT FFA, TALK
WITH YOUR SCHOOL FFA
SPONSOR OR VISIT WWW.
FFA.ORG
Three-Circle Model
Agricultural
education
students are provided opportunities for leadership development, personal growth and
Kenny & Tanya Herron
Owners
The Glen Rose FFA Chapter Leadership Team (from left to right) Joshua Berry, Isaac Jones, Garett Reed, Jacob
Lowry, Joshua Lowry and Grace Baker recently participated in the sub area level competitions held at Lake
Hamilton High School. Lowry won the extemporaneous speaking event with a speech on animal welfare. Baker
finished second in the prepared public speaking event with her speech on urban sprawl and its effect on farmland. Baker also competed in the Farm Bureau sponsored current events discussion meet and finished third. The
team finished second in the parliamentary procedure competition. (Photo submitted)
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The Bismarck and Lake Hamilton FFA went all out at the National FFA Convention and Expo. (Photo submitted)
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Magnet Cove FFA students practice aroma testing. (Photo submitted)
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of FFA
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Fast facts:
Interesting info about FFA
Press Release
The National FFA Organization provides leadership,
personal growth and career
success training through agricultural education.
• There are 610,240 FFA
members in grades seven
through 12 who belong
to one of 7,665 local FFA
chapters throughout the
U.S., Puerto Rico and the
Virgin Islands.
• FFA members are in
grades seven through 12 and
are college students
• Sixty-eight percent of
FFA members live in rural
and farm areas
• Thirty-two percent live
in urban and suburban areas
• Ninety-two percent of
agricultural education pro-
grams offer agriscience.
• Seventy-one percent
offer advanced agriscience
and biotechnology
• Fifty-nine percent offer
agricultural mechanics
• Forty-nine percent offer horticulture
• Forty-three percent offer animal science
• Twenty-four percent
offer environment-related
courses
Career Exploration
FFA members earn $4
billion annually through
hands-on work experiences.
FFA members participate in
and learn advanced career
skills in 49 national proficiency areas that range from
food science and technology
and agricultural communications to wildlife management and production agriculture.
Through 25 national career development events,
FFA members are challenged by real-life, handson tests of skills that prepare
them for career success.
Industry Support
In 2014, corporate sponsors and individuals provided more than $23 million
in financial support to FFA
to support agricultural programs and activities and offer scholarships.
For more facts about
FFA, visit www.ffa.org.
FFA’s mission
FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of
students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career
success through agricultural education.
The Agricultural
Education Mission:
Agricultural
education
prepares students for successful careers and a lifetime of
informed choices in the global agriculture, food, fiber and
natural resources systems.
The National FFA Organization affirms its belief in the
value of all human beings and
seeks diversity in its member-
ship, leadership and staff as an
equal opportunity employer.
Agricultural Education prepares students for successful
careers and a lifetime of informed choices in the global
agriculture, food, fiber and
natural resources systems.
The National FFA Organization is a resource and support
organization that does not select, control or supervise state
association, local chapter or
individual member activities
except as expressly provided
for in the National FFA Organization Constitution and
Bylaws.
Bismarck FFA Magnet Cove FFA
Bismarck High School’s
FFA program includes about
70 students in grades nine
through 12.
In addition, there is an
eighth-grade group, too.
Beirne said that every eighth
grader takes a semester of
agriculture and a semester
of family and consumer
sciences.
Bismarck FFA students
are active in a mechanics
program in addition to other
FFA special programs.
Glen Rose FFA
Future Farmers of America students at Glen Rose
School have been busy this
year.
Ag test can be downloaded from the Internet
in a variety of studies. Examples of tests are Animal
Science (including wild-
life), Animal Nutrition,
Aquaculture, Plant Science
(including soils), Arkansas Floriculture, Arkansas
Greenhouse Management,
Forestry/Natural Resources, Greenhouse Management, Natural Resources,
Nursery Landscape, Soil
Characteristic, Ag Mechanics, Ag Business, Commodity Marketing, FFA/Leadership, Livestock Showing
Presentation, Food Science
and much more.
John Jones is the FFA
sponsor for the Glen Rose
School.
The Magnet Cove High
School Chapter of Future
Farmers of America currently
has approximately 68 students
enrolled
in
agriculture
education classes and all
of those students are FFA
members as well. Last year
the club also added an 8th
grade class for the first time.
The chapter has been
busy with its community
garden and other FFA
activities. The members are
not just busy outside of the
classroom, however.
The
agriculture education students
Ouachita FFA
Heath Lee has sponsored
Ouachita High School’s FFA
program the entire 17 years
he has been teaching there.
Ouachita’s FFA club has
approximately 50 members
and, in addition, there are
more students who take FFA
classes, he added. Ninth
graders have the option of
taking an intro class, he said.
This class is a prerequisite
for the additional classes
taught at the high school.
Some of the other
have been working hard in
their agriculture classes as
well. Hands-on activities in
Magnet Cove’s agriculture
classroom include: dissection
labs, soil testing, DNA
models, plant propagation in
the greenhouse, welding and
woodworking, as well as many
other learning activities.
Magnet Cove students are
gearing up for their spring
vegetable and flower sale.
They are busy planting seeds
and making baskets.
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courses include agriculture
mechanics,
agriculture
metals, horticulture and
forestry.
The
Ouachita
FFA
is gearing up for its big
fundraiser, the greenhouse
sale.
“We
use
the
greenhouse in our classes,
then sell hanging baskets,
Mother’s Day pots and other
arrangements,” Lee said.
The sale usually takes place
around the end of March, he
added.
1275 Willamette Rd.
Malvern, AR • 501-337-9400
HSC Cattlemen’s
Association
In July, Bismarck FFA members had the honor of attending the Arkansas Leadership Conference. Members
learned new leadership skills and made friends from all
A Magnet Cove FFA student gives treats to their birds, over Arkansas. Students also participated in a commuwhich are all lined up to get their treats. (Photo submit- nity service project at the Magnet Cove Community
Garden. (Photo submitted)
ted)
To Educate • To Inspire • To Enrich
For more info, please call
James Stinnett at 337-9539
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Of The Local F.F.A.
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