National FFA Week is Feb. 19-25
• History of FFA
February 19, 2017
In 1928, 33 students from 18 states gathered in Kansas City, Missouri, to form the Future Farmers of America.
The roots of FFA originate from a time when boys were losing interest and leaving the farm. Walter S. Newman, who in September 1925 became the Virginia State Supervisor of Agricultural Education, sought a solution to the problem with Edmund C. Magill, Harry W. Sanders and Henry C. Groseclose, staff members of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute Agricultural Education Department.
Newman proposed forming an organization that offered farm boys “a greater opportunity for self-expressi...
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