FFA Members Bring Their Voice to the Future of Agriculture
Posted on 24 October 2012 by Cayla McLeland
Cody Back, Assistant Director of Leadership Programs, Indiana FFA
Hoosier FFA Officers are hustling around downtown Indianapolis this week as the National FFA Convention continues. All seven officers are serving as delegates with one additional Hoosier delegate for this year?s convention. Assistant Director of Leadership Programs for Indiana FFA, Coty Back, says that the student officers and delegates have the most powerful voice in the future of FFA.
?When you look at a lot of our figureheads, our CEOs and COOs, they are adults that are running the business side of FFA. But the decisions that are made all come from a student body that?s selected. So every state is allowed a certain number of delegates and in Indiana we have eight ? the seven state officers and one additional delegate. They are in delegate committee meetings right now working on the business of National FFA Organization and the things they want to see changed with FFA ? whether that?s in the bylaws or the constitution; or maybe just a lot of things they want to incorporate this year like new ideas of how to grow our agriculture with our CDEs, which are contests students enter (also called Career Development Events). They are trying to expand those and grow those so we can meet the need of agriculture?s ever expanding scope. It?s not just farming, it?s not just ranching, it?s from the farm to the fork, and everything that goes with that. Right now, they are helping run the business for convention.?
Back says that the students involved in FFA are not only learning and growing to become young professionals in agriculture, but are also serving as advocates for agriculture?s importance in the future.
?You look at the figures, in 2050 we are going to have 9 million people on this planet and they have to be fed. When it comes to looking at agriculture, the United States produces 18 percent of the world?s food. American agriculture has to increase not only what it?s producing, but how it?s producing it. We will have to become more efficient than we?ve ever been. When we look at the future of that, who are going to be the farmers behind that? Who are going to the scientists who come up with the technological advancements that get us there? It?s the people who are here at National FFA Convention this week. These students are the ones.?
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