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FFA KID<br />
in case there is not enough<br />
corn on your farm...<br />
What does the farmer<br />
refer to his next-door<br />
horse as?<br />
His neigh-bor.<br />
What is a sheep’s<br />
favorite game to play?<br />
Why are people<br />
jealous of agriculture<br />
Baaaa-dminton.<br />
EASTERN IOWA FARMER PHOTO / CONTRIBUTED<br />
Incoming president Fayeth Henningsen kicks off retreat week for<br />
Central DeWitt Community High School’s FFA chapter in June.<br />
movies. It is common for FFA<br />
majors?<br />
members to be asked, “Why<br />
do you do this? You are not a<br />
Because they always get<br />
a job in their field. How did the farmers farmer.”<br />
get the highest marks<br />
While production agriculture<br />
is FFA for some people,<br />
in the math exams? the majority have a far different<br />
They were all pro-tractors.<br />
experience. Nowadays<br />
FFA offers a variety of opportunities<br />
for all and appeals to<br />
What is a farmers<br />
favorite Bruce<br />
a large audience of students,<br />
Springsteen song?<br />
some of who may have never<br />
set foot on a farm.<br />
year to fully embrace my FFA<br />
Born in the USDA<br />
For example, one FFA<br />
experience.<br />
Why do cows have<br />
experience could consist of<br />
I now know that I am the<br />
hooves instead of feet?<br />
working with biotechnology<br />
“FFA kid” who is usually<br />
Because they lack toes.<br />
found wandering the agriculture<br />
hallway wearing blue<br />
systems, another in agribusiness,<br />
and another still in environmental<br />
service systems.<br />
jeans and a classic DeWitt<br />
Central FFA hoodie or showing<br />
her livestock at the fair. I<br />
Most students learn the basics<br />
of agriculture in their initial<br />
also know that I am the “FFA<br />
Bellevue Maquoketa course of study and specialize<br />
kid” who is pumped for every<br />
based on their likes and interests<br />
as they move forward.<br />
state FFA convention, and that<br />
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I have learned how to be a<br />
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With agriculture being the leader, a public speaker, and<br />
nation’s largest employer, student’s<br />
experiences are almost this organization. No longer<br />
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never the same.<br />
do I worry about the raised<br />
Therefore, the solution to eyebrows of my classmates.<br />
the misunderstanding of FFA As my time in FFA draws<br />
is for all members to embrace to a close, the label I have<br />
the label. Embrace being the gained will live on, never to<br />
“FFA kid,” because otherwise be hidden again. FFA is a part<br />
others will not understand how of who I am, and if it is a part<br />
diverse FFA can be.<br />
of you too, embrace it before<br />
As a first time FFA-er, I was you can’t any longer.<br />
not super active in my chapter. Fayeth Henningsen is a<br />
I thought that if I showed off senior at Central DeWitt<br />
my hard work with my livestock,<br />
my classmates would part of the CAC Media Group,<br />
Community High School and<br />
Serving Clinton, Dubuque, Jackson and Jones<br />
counties in Iowa since 1947<br />
raise eyebrows. It took me which focuses on current ag<br />
until the end of my freshman concerns.<br />
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