Off-farm Income

SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING JON SANWALD! The way my mind works, it is always looking for trends or for repeating themes that come up in my work.  I am very fortunate in what I do that I get to speak to so many FFA students and get a feel for the type of people they are and where their values lie. One of the recurring themes that comes up over and over again is how good FFA students are with money.  Over the course of the past six years of producing this show I have continued to interview students who started showing animals at a young age and then sold those animals at their fair auctions.  Almost always, these students saved that money and then reinvested it back into livestock or into their business going forward. Our guest today, Jon Sanwald, did exactly that.  Starting as a very young man, showing and selling pigs, he saved all of his money.  Once he had enough saved he reinvested that money into his very first heifer.  Then over time he started rolling the revenue created by his cattle into more cattle.  To