Off-farm Income

Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter! Email address: SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING CONNIE ROGERS I am an agricultural advocate, and most of the students that I interview on this show are as well.  And, what are we doing as advocates but providing information to people about our industry so that they can make a well-informed buying decision?  Considering the amounts of misinformation about agriculture that exist, I think it is all of our responsibility to participate as advocates in one way or another. Our guest today, Connie Rogers, takes this to a whole new level.  Connie and her father raise and farrow about 200 sows in Southern Georgia.  Connie is intimately familiar with this business and has been showing pigs since she was in the 2nd grade.  When it came time to choose a supervised agricultural experience for the FFA, raising and showing pigs was a natural fit. However, Connie recognized that there was more going on than just feeding, showing, and marketing pigs.  She realized that there were p