FFA

Officers
President - Hayden Hamm
Vice President – Craig Garmon
Secretary – Jeremy Pate
Treasurer – Cody Rice
Sentinel - Nic Davis
Reporter - Jonathan Pugh

FFA Fruit sale is going on now. Contact any FFA officer to order yours. Deadline to order is November 16th.

2007 Show Team
Jessi Harbison-10^th Grade
Hanna Harbison – 6^th Grade
Nick Williams – 6^th Grade
Brandon Harbison-10^th Grade
Eric Harris-10^th Grade
Hayden Hamm-10^th Grade

SLE LIVESTOCK SHOW
ALABAMA STATE STEER AND HEIFER SHOW
MARCH 6-9
Awards listed below:
*Congratulations to Jessi Harbison for showing the state champion charolais heifer .
*Hanna Harbison for a second place in class in the charolais show .
*Hayden ham had a 5^th place in the simmential show.
*Nick Williams had a 1^st place and 2^nd place in class in the charolais show .
*Levi Harris for 6^th place in class in the commercial heifer show .
*Hayden Ham got 2^nd place in the calf scramble.
*Hanna Harbison gots 2^nd place in class in the simmential show.

* Jesse Harbison received Champion Charolais Heifer and Nick Williams received Reserve Champion Charolais Heifer at the National Peanut Festival November 3, 2007.

Information
The National FFA Organization is dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal grown and career success through agricultural education.

Founded in 1928, the Future Farmers of America brought together students, teachers and agribusiness to solidify support for agricultural education. In Kansas City's Baltimore Hotel, 33 young farm boys charted a course for the future. They could not have foreseen how the organization would grow and thrive.

Since 1928, millions of agriculture students - no one knows exactly how many - have donned the official FFA jacket and championed the FFA creed. FFA has opened its doors and its arms to minorities and women, ensuring that all students could reap the benefits of agricultural education.

Today, the national FFA Organization remains committed to the individual student, providing a path to achievement in premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. Now, the organization is expanding the nation's view of "traditional" agriculture and finding new ways to infuse agriculture into the classroom.

Creed
I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds - achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from struggles of former years.

I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny.

I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability of progressive agriculturists to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil.

I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining; in the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so - for others as well as myself; in less need for charity and more of it when needed; in being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends on me.

I believe that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring task.

Last modified: 01/22/08