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WILTON FFA
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Clay Ledger (left), and Kale Caffery survey the field prior to soybean planting. Wilton High School FFA
students learn skills hands-on from teachers, advisors, and local farmers on how to plant and harvest fields
and care for livestock on the Wilton FFA farm.
do contribute some money
for a buy-in, but the program
covers the rest of the cost,
Sippy said.
They learn about breeding,
proper nutrition and other
care.
The FFA program has about
103 high school members and
105 junior high members,
Sippy said. They range from
students who have grown up
on farms to those who are
“city kids.”
For the latter, “this gives
them experience they don’t
otherwise get if they don’t live
on a farm,” Sippy said. For
those who are more familiar,
the work lets them advance
their skills.
While Damian Dann, who is
a junior this fall, lives in town,
he works for a group of farm-
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