How FFA Funds Future Leaders
Beginning this year, the Student Engagement and Travel Assistance Grants program supports members attending National FFA experiences.
The Evolution of Agricultural Communications
This year, the national career development event will change to reflect industry standards and create an interactive learning environment.
Member Blooms Into Agriculture Advocate
Despite coming from a nonagricultural background, Morgan Watkins found her place in FFA. Her blog celebrates all FFA members across the country.
On the Record: Janet Adkison
Janet Adkison’s FFA experiences prepared her to be a news anchor for one of the main agricultural market news sources in America.
FFA Chapter Takes Ag Out to the Ballgame
Members of Apalachee FFA in Georgia passed out peanuts to their increasingly urban community to educate about the importance of ag.
FFA Experience Empowers Ag Storyteller
Saying "yes" to FFA opportunities brought huge success to this agricultural communicator.
FFA Alumna Answers Call to Communicate
This FFA alumna credits the organization – and FFA New Horizons – with helping her uncover her path to professional success. It was an FFA New Horizons article, much like the one you’re reading now, that helped Julie Groce determine she wanted to pursue a career in agricultural communications. Groce, a second-generation FFA member and former member and past president of the Hillsdale FFA in Jeromesville, Ohio, was interested in agricultural broadcasting and competed at the state level in Creed speaking and prepared public speaking leadership development events. She didn’t realize her passions and talents could easily be transformed into a rewarding career. She remembers flipping through FFA New Horizons and landing on an article that outlined the career possibilities in agricultural communications, and that was when she knew it was the path for her. “I was so excited to discover that people in ag communications often wrote about agriculture or worked on the broadcasting side, because both of those sounded perfect for me,” Groce says. “After reading that article, a light bulb went off for [...]
