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SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING ETHAN MULLEN! There are so many aspects about the FFA as well as the students that the FFA attracts that listing them all is impracticable.  Of all of those attributes the one that stands out so often is service.  So many of the FFA students that I interview want to serve and find a way to start providing service through their FFA chapters. Today's guest, Ethan Mullen, is a great example of this.  Ethan knows that he wants to serve, and he has already been serving his community through his participation in his FFA chapter.  Ethan has a beef production supervised agricultural experience, and he is also on the officer team as the treasurer.  When he is not working on school projects, he is working for his family like when we conducted this interview from the cab of a skid steer. Ethan is just beginning his senior year of high school, and with one year to go in high school he has his eyes fixed on a higher level of service.  Ethan knows that he wants to join the United States military.  It is something he has known for many years already.  He is still deciding between two branches, the Marines and the Army.  But there is no doubt that he is ready to step up and provide a great service to our entire nation! SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production HIGH SCHOOL: Southern High School; Racine, Ohio MASCOT: Tornadoe's FFA ADVISOR: Jenna Meeks CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ETHAN MULLEN: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Southern High School Ag. Department's website: Ethan's FFA Advisor's Email Address: jenna.meeks@southernlocal.net  Southern High School's Telephone Number: 740-949-2611 Dictation Of Interview (not 100% accurate due to limitations of technology): Hey there! Hi  Good, how are you Ethan?  Good. So I'm catching you out working today. Yes Alright, looks like your FFA advisor want to jump on here too Yes. Okay I'll admit her into the room here and see what she's got going on. So Ethan town and state are you in? I’m in Racine Ohio it’s in Meigs County, we are in the boot of Ohio. So Racine Ohio is that where Southern High School is at? Yes  Okay, so questions from you do you have any questions about what we’re doing or how we do it or anything like that. No Okay, and I wanted to confirm I got the name of your high school correctly; Southern High School. Yes Alright and you are getting ready to start your senior year is that right? Yes that is correct. Okay, so I do two commercials as we go through; one is for LaCrosse rubber boots and the other one is for Powder River livestock and equipment like Squeeze Chutes and stuff like that, do you use either one of those two products? We use rubber boots a lot. Do you use LaCrosse or just some other brand? I have had a pair of LaCrosse before. Thanks for coming on Ethan Thank you You bet so why are you in the bobcat what's going on today? We just got done pouring a big pad of concrete today and we are in the process of forming up right now for another pour tomorrow. Alright let’s talk about you, so you’re in Ohio, when you’re not sitting in the cab of a bobcat, are you in your home are you on a farm or are you in town or something kind of in the middle of those two. I live on a farm, we raise beef cattle. Okay, and is that something that's been going on in your family for quite some time is that new with your folks or what's the deal there? So far that I know it's three to four generations going on  Okay, like great grandfather great grandmother or something like that got us started? Yes, that I know so far. Okay, so what kind of cattle do you all raise? We raise Black Angus Maine cross  Very cool, and do you sell them as breeding stock or is it like a commercial cow-calf type deal or what are you doing? We butcher and sell them off as beef. Very cool, so is that the primary thing that keeps your folks wor...