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New MO FFA Officer Team Elected
The 82nd Annual Missouri FFA State Convention ended Friday night in Columbia this weekend. The new state officer team has been selected. Austin Steele, the newly elected 1st Vice President, from Miller, Mo. says that he is looking forward to the upcoming year with his new teammates.
“I expect to encounter a lot of traveling,” said Steele. “We go all over the state and talk to different chapters and do different deals throughout the summer; FFA Camp, Public Speaking Academy, things like that. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
The officer team consists of 17 FFA members from across the state with one student representing each area the FFA is divided into.
Area 1 Vice President- Colton Lee from the East Buchanan FFA Chapter
Area 2 State President- Jon Black from the Chillicothe FFA Chapter
Area 3 State Vice President- Nancy Jackson from the Macon FFA Chapter
Area 4 State Vice President- Sarah Ray from the Paris FFA Chapter
Area 5 State Vice President- Christopher Hudson from the Silex FFA Chapter
Area 6 State Vice President- Rachel Thornton from the Sweet Springs FFA Chapter
Area 7 State Vice President- Kerry Elbel from the Holden FFA Chapter
Area 8 State Vice President- Jessica Kueffer from the California FFA Chapter
Area 9 State 1st Vice President- Austin Steele from the Miller FFA Chapter
Area 10 State Vice President- Sonja Gjerde from the Fair Play FFA Chapter
Area 11 State Vice President- Erin Woody from the Mount Vernon FFA Chapter
Area 12 State Vice President- Quaid Taylor from the Ozark FFA Chapter
Area 13 State Vice President- Tiffany Pemberton from the Richland FFA Chapter
Area 14 State Secretary- Mareta Sherman from the Belle FFA Chapter
Area 15 State Vice President- Austin Smith from the East Prairie FFA Chapter
Area 16 State Vice President- Michelle Johnson from the Couch FFA Chapter
Past State President- Samantha Warner form the Archie FFA Chapter
Steele says that the officer team plans to get more students involved in the FFA and help students prepare for their futures in agriculture.
“Some of our goals will probably be to just encourage freshmen and motivate them to be involved like I was,” said Steele. As a freshman I really didn’t know if I wanted to be in or even if I wanted to do anything at all. To encourage them and to be involved the most they can,” said Steele. “Ninety-eight percent of jobs in America are involved in agriculture or some form of agriculture. So it is extremely important to be involved in it so you can help better educate the public and help them understand.”
The new Missouri officer team will travel around the state for the next year promoting agriculture and the FFA to the more than 24,000 high school students currently involved in the Missouri FFA Association.
We want to wish the Best of Luck to all exhibitors at the upcoming MO State Fair. Follow the details on our Facebook page or web site. Good Luck from the MO Youth in Ag Scholarship Committee and we hope to see you at the Sale of Champions!