Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING BREANNA THOMPSON! How big a part of your community is your local FFA Chapter?  In today's episode we will speak with a student who lives in a community in which the FFA chapter is central. Breanna Thompson was inspired as a young girl to join the FFA because she already knew the FFA advisors and was seeing what the FFA was doing in her community.  It was exposure like this that led her to begin her own cattle herd while she was in the 8th Grade and just getting started with the FFA.  She had her father take her to the auction, and got her own buyers number. Then she bought her first cattle. Today, as an incoming sophomore Breanna is already an FFA veteran.  Her thoughts about the FFA and agriculture have evolved.  She brings up a very good point during the interview about what she sees and feels when she goes into the grocery store.  Looking at all of the different agricultural products that are abundantly available and priced reasonably makes Breanna swell with pride in seeing just h