FFA Ag Appreciation Dinner
 | Author:
Mikayla Kraft, School Correspondent
MT43 News School Correspondent |
Future Farmers of America (FFA) Ag Appreciation Dinner Mikayla Kraft, School Correspondent As members of the Broadwater community, we know that seasons come and seasons go, but we also recognize that agriculture does not have an end. In the cattle industry, there is always a calving season, a growing period, and a finishing period. When growing crops there is generally planting, growing, and harvest periods. When the cows are sent to slaughter and the crops are harvested, the product goes to facilities to be processed for human or animal consumption and is then transported to stores across the nation. These seasons are celebrated locally by our annual Ag Appreciation Dinner, and nationally recognized during National FFA week.
It has been a few years since the Broadwater FFA chapter has hosted what our Ag Appreciation Dinner and Silent Auction can be at its biggest potential. The Ag Appreciation Dinner themed 'Mirrors Through Time' is going to be on February 25th and there is still time to get tickets! Guests will be served a prime rib dinner and will get to hear from an MSU economist, our lieutenant governor, and even Steve Daines. Use this opportunity to learn more about Montana’s agriculture and meet the people who are proud supporters of agriculture and continuously work in our government system to ensure that Montana’s agriculture holds strong just as it has in previous years. Our alumni and many business supporters that are mentioned in our Business of the Week Facebook posts have generously donated many items for our silent auction. Join to get a chance to gain a great product from the auction. For more information, please contact our advisor Jemma Loughery via phone, whose number is at the end of this article.
FFA takes a week in February to celebrate our past and present achievements as an organization and recognize our goal as FFA members and agriculturalists, specifically stated in the FFA Creed by E.M Tiffany. In celebration of FFA week, our FFA chapter is engaging with the BHS student body through Drive your Tractor to School Day, school wheelbarrow racing, and a pie-eating contest. For National FFA week, Tractor Supply Co. hosts a fundraiser that helps raise money to grow an ag classroom, an FFA chapter, or ag awareness. All that is needed is to buy a paper emblem at the checkout. All of these proceeds will go to whoever gains this grant. Broadwater FFA can’t stand alone. We work with so many other chapters and states that help us thrive. We should support those in other communities as well.
Agriculture doesn’t end and FFA won’t either. We started in a small Baltimore Hotel in Kansas City in 1928 with only a few people and have now grown to 850,823 members with 8,995 chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. I urge you to support our foundational and amazing organization and buy a ticket to the dinner and participate in the National FFA activities. For more information about the Ag Appreciation Dinner contact Jemma Loughery at (406)441-3430.
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