I got this from our FFA Ag Boosters Treasurer. Campbell Soups has made a huge commitment to our kids. All you have to do is click on the link, skip the into and in the right upper corner there is a button.

Pass this on to all you know so that they can help support the FFA and our kids. Thanks……..

Here’s a real quick way to give a dollar to Future Farmers of America Foundation and not a scam. The Campbell Soup Co. will donate $1 (up to $250,000 total) for every click of the red barn on its website to the FFA Foundation for its scholarship and education programs. You can only click once. So, please go to the website and click the barn, but more importantly, tell you friends and family. Pass this on to all you know so that they can help support the FFA and our kids. Thanks……..

Help Grow Your Own Soup

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First of all let me say my allergies are under control. It is not something anyone wants, but you just deal and move on. I am using a new drug that seems to have few side effects and works well.

Dunk has been at the National FFA Convention since leaving on Tuesday. He is there competing for the National Agriculture Mechanics Team award. God has blessed us with Dunk, I know don’t let him know this is written. He is a great kid, with a big heart and a drive to match. As I have said before none of them would be there without Mr. Joe Hanke, a coach and former teacher that you dream of having. He inspires confidence and knowledge in a kid that have none, he gives kids small achievable goals that will lead to big goals that allow them to aim to the stars. My respect for Mr. Hanke is something I think he as a humble man would think is not deserved, but it is.

Whatever the results today, I know Dunk has learned more than I could hope for him to learn. He took a plane ride, which for the record he plans never to do again. I tried to assure him it was not that bad. He has seen and met people from all over the USA that love Ag as much as he does. To think this little FFA beat all the other huge FFAs to go to Nationals is amazing.

I know he will appreciate this journey for years to come. Since they have been so focused on competition, he has yet to play. Win or lose they are going to the fun stuff today where all the dealers, companies and freebies are.

In honor of the Terrific FFA, I thought I would post the FFA creed. Every Greenhand has to memorize it for his Greenhand award in freshman year. Gator has done now, and he starts Farm Skills competition next month, following in his dad’s, uncle’s and brother’s footsteps.

Update Dunk’s team got 10th place. He is in the press relelase, he also got a silver emblem. He hasn’t come home yet.

FFA 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

the 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 upon 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.

The creed was written by E. M. Tiffany, and adopted at the 3rd National Convention of the FFA. It

was revised at the 38th Convention and the 63rd Convention.

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