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•Classroom/Laboratory

•FFA

•SAE

•Travel

•Earning Money

•Serving your Community

•Field Trips

•The FFA and Your Career

The agriculture education in which you are enrolled consists of three major components:

The agriculture program consists of three components:

•Classroom/Laboratory

•FFA

•SAE

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• FFA is the organization for students who are studying many agricultural areas.

• It provides opportunities to practice what you’re learning in the classroom in real life situations and develop leadership skills.

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• Supervised Agricultural Experience Program: gives you a chance to explore areas of agriculture that you are interested in.

http://www.cals.ncsu.edu/agexed/sae/toolbox/index.html

Visit SAE Central

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Where will your future take you?

Travel:Travel: As you participate in As you participate in FFA activities, you will take FFA activities, you will take field trips, travel to state and field trips, travel to state and and national conventions, or and national conventions, or travel overseas as part of travel overseas as part of the international exchange the international exchange program!program!

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Going to College?

FFA can help put you there. Each year the National FFA Organization awards more than $1 million in scholarships.

By becoming an FFA member and starting a Supervised Agriculture Experience Program (SAE), you can earn money while learning about the different areas of agriculture.

Your high school agriculture instructor will work with you to design a program just for you!

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Agriculture Career Categories:•Marketing, Marketing, merchandising, merchandising, and salesand sales

•Science and Science and engineeringengineering

•Management and Management and financefinance

•Education and Education and communicationscommunications

•Social servicesSocial services

•Agricultural Agricultural productionproduction

You already know agriculture is more than farming. Agriculture is our nation’s largest employer, and its related fields comprise close to 25 percent of all jobs in this country.

While raising crops and livestock remains the solid foundation for all agriculturally related careers, only 8 percent are in the production area of agriculture . The remaining 92%92% of agriculture jobs are in agribusiness, science, marketing, communications, and other exciting areas.

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Visit the Agriculture Career Center at http://www.ffa.org

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