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Sign Up To Receive Our FFA Stories Newsletter! Email address:   SHOW NOTES: INTRODUCING BAILEY MORRELL! I love it when students in the FFA with their own businesses discover niches and turn them into businesses.  Our guest today, Bailey Morrell, did just that with farming.  She has been raising Hereford cattle for several years now and growing her herd. Recently Bailey had an opportunity to do some dryland farming on some neighboring property.  Because it was going to be dry land, she had to figure out something that could work.  She realized that she could grow oats under those conditions but wanted to figure a way to make that as profitable as possible.  She decided to turn the operation into a certified organic operation to be able to market her oats to a niche market Bailey shares equipment with her parents and really has an eye for agribusiness.  This led her to become the new California State Star Farmer. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Beef Production HIGH SCHOOL: Willows High School; Willows, California MASCOT: Honkers FFA ADVISOR: Amanda Samons CONTACT INFORMATION FOR BAILEY MORRELL: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Willows High School website: Bailey's FFA Advisors' Email Addresses: asamons@willowsunified.org Willows High School's Telephone Number: 530.934.6611 FFA LINKS: National FFA Organization Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE's) Support FFA  Donate to FFA - One way that FFA students are able to start small businesses is through an FFA grant of $1,000.  In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants.  With your donations, more students can get this head start - pay it forward. REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA: Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% as well as the rest of the world.  FFA is providing the needed education, training, and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and ensure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food. Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation.  The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth. Farmers, ranchers, and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the search for food is as simple as going to the grocery store: "Because American farmers are able to provide for so many of us, they give more and more of us the freedom to pursue goals and livelihoods beyond growing the food we need to survive." U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack  More Places You Can Listen to Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald: