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For the third year in a row I ran to the Southwest Desert to find the sun and feel some warmth during the middle of winter. This is becoming a tradition that I don't think I will ever give up. I'll…
Kailee Adkins is her chapter's FFA President, a national finalist in agriscience and show goat producer from Chillicothe, Ohio. She has had an interesting journey to where she is at today.
When she …
Andrew Szalach is a really amazing FFA student. He has been very involved in the FFA since 6th grade, even before he could officially join in the 7th. So much so that he served as his chapter's vic…
Spring is coming everyone, and it always makes me think about the spring of 2012. Back then I had never started a business, but I had identified one that I wanted to start. The first business I sta…
Stephen Lemon is the host of the Chef Lemonhead Youtube Channel, an FFA student and the chair of his chapter's recruitment committee. With almost 4,000 subscribers on Youtube, including me, Stephen …
Nancy Rivas is a senior at Sanger High School and is very active in her FFA program. She did not grow up on a farm or ranch and really had no exposure to agriculture as a child. However, when it ca…
On today's episode I am catching up with Zac Fralix from Southern Tennessee. Zac was originally on the show in 2015 when he and his, now wife, were going gangbusters raising around 500 goats, teachi…
Spring is coming everyone, and it always makes me think about the spring of 2012. Back then I had never started a business, but I had identified one that I wanted to start. The first business I sta…
Zach Gingras is his FFA Chapter's treasurer, a first year FFA student and the owner of a growing herd of Nigerian Dwarf goats with some outstanding genetics.
Back in 2020, when Zach was bored to te…
Several years ago I did a series of episodes about the health benefits of entrepreneurship. I was looking at those today and decided that I would record another episode about this very topic. I thi…
Adam Keir is his FFA chapter's Chaplain, a musician, a junior in high school and he is the winner of Pennsylvania's most improved award for the 1941 Farmall tractor that he restored.
There is somet…
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Livestock hoarding is a mental illness, that livestock producers need to be on the lookout for.
Rural Crime In The U.S.
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Reagan Long is the Chapter President of the Shield's Valley FFA Chapter and owns his own lawn care company, and yes, his first employee was his own father. Way back in the 7th Grade one of Reagan's …
If you listened to my Tuesday episode this week, then you know that one of the most important mentors I have in this entrepreneurial journey, Dan Miller, died in January after being diagnosed with pa…
Mercedes Jones is her chapter's historian and her district's sentinel, and she is only in her sophomore year of high school! She is also the recipient of a $1,000 SAE grant for a flower business tha…
If you have listened to the Off-Farm Income Podcast for some time, then you have likely heard me speak of Dan Miller on more than one occasion. Since 2009, Dan has been a mentor, inspiration and "pe…
Katie Dauch is her FFA Chapter's President, a junior in high school, a gardener, a food preserver and a very benevolent high school student. Starting way back in elementary school, Katie and her mom…