OFI 935: From Buying To Raising Market Livestock
Off-Farm Income · Matt Brechwald
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Show Notes
It is always very interesting to interview students in the early part of the FFA journey. So many students start out small on their projects or in their competitions, and then they grow into more sophisticated projects and supervised agricultural experiences.
Each of these students go through a transitional period as they progress in their FFA experience. In today's episode I get to catch one of these students right in the midst of her transition. Becca Lehman has started transitioning from simply showing market animals at her county's fair to breeding livestock and selling market animals to 4H and FFA students who want to show.
It is a very interesting conversation about what motivated her to do this, and how she is approaching this change. Becca has raised market steers, hogs and goats throughout her experience already. Now, she is starting her own herd of goats to breed them for other exhibitors. In addition to this, Becca works at her families two feed stores as a cashier, and his learning the business of retail at the same time.