Jeff Hill’s lifelong love of work with the soil and the life-giving plants that depend upon it, was first nurtured by a national organization which has long acted as a gathering place and clearing house for the youth of the agriculture calling, the Future Farmers of America. Hill’s future career as an agronomist, agriculture and irrigation consultant can be said to have started there, as a member of FFA in secondary school.
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The National Future Farmers of America organization was formed for American youth as a student career and technical group promoting agricultural education through middle and high school classes in areas of the agricultural sciences, the agricultural interests of Jeff Hill. Its membership numbers today make FFA one of the largest technical student organizations for teens and preteens in United States schools. FFA also has chapters in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, for 610,240 members in 7,665 chapters in the United States and its territories. The Future Farmers of America covers student interests in food, fibers, and natural resources and their attendant sciences, including business and technology in relation to agriculture production.
The Future Farmers of Virginia was founded in 1925 by four agriculture teachers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute: Henry C. Groseclose, Walter Newman, Edmund Magill and Harry Sanders. It went nationwide in only three short years, and became the Future Farmers of America. The FFA which Jeff Hill joined to share his interest in agronomy with other like-minded students strives to make a positive difference in kids’ lives by helping them use their agriculture education to achieve leadership skills, personal growth and career success. The Future Farmers of America holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code.
Jeff Hill informed his early agricultural learning under agricultural education teachers who supervised students’ classroom and laboratory instruction and agricultural experience through various programs and events. Career Development Events for FFA members encompass practice in skills from communications to mechanics, and students may compete as individuals or as teams at local, district, state and national levels. Parents, employers, sponsors and other adults cooperate with teachers to assist students in reaching their educational and career goals.
Jeff Hill wore the official colors of the Future Farmers of America, National Blue and Corn Gold, in the legendary corduroy jacket which has been emblematic of the organization since 1933. The jacket’s distinctive blue color was standardized in 2005, and the emblem and embroidered chapter, district, region and area are applied in Van Wert, Ohio by the Universal Lettering Company. FFA members wear the official jacket for all organization activities. Future Farmers of America today is the nation’s leading career club for budding students of agriculture in the United States.
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