Commentary.
During National FFA Week many
of us remember our time spent building picnic tables, participating in soils
judging contests, learning to weld, touring a meat locker, and going to State
and National FFA Convention with a van full of teen-agers. Many of you were
active participants in a local FFA Chapter. Some of you may have been
active in a collegiate chapter as well.
I was.
The first paragraph of the
FFA Creed has significant meaning to those of us whose roots in agriculture and
FFA run deep:
“I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds – achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.”
My grandpa was charter member of FFA
at Winchester High School in Illinois.
