Features

Career Success on Capitol Hill

Six FFA Alums detail noteworthy experiences that helped them find their paths to working and living in Washington, D.C.

By Lauren Quinlan|2025-08-02T11:07:56-04:00August 2nd, 2025|Categories: Alumni Focus, Features, FFA New Horizons, The Feed|Tags: Agricultural Communications, agricultural consulting, agricultural legislation, agricultural policy, agriculture careers, Ashley Smith, Brooke Rollins, career pathways, Career Success, Chase Kusel, Michael Torrey, Tracey Mann, Venus Welch-White|

Serving Up Sweet Opportunities at Milton Hershey School

This Pennsylvania FFA chapter grows future leaders through classwork, community outreach and hands-on learning.

By Jodi Helmer|2025-08-02T11:22:36-04:00August 2nd, 2025|Categories: Chapter Focus, Features, FFA New Horizons, The Feed|Tags: agricultural and environmental education, community outreach, hands-on learning, Milton Hershey School, Nick Isenberg, pennsylvania ffa|

SAEs in the USA

This exclusive and expanded story features a fun twist on the beloved FFA in the USA magazine section that began in 2017.

By FFA New Horizons|2025-01-08T08:10:57-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: Features, FFA in the USA, FFA New Horizons, SAE, The Feed|Tags: FFA in the USA, ffa regions, ffa story, National Officers, reporters, supervised agricultural experience|

Cultivate a Career in Agriculture

Explore these five career pathways to see what your future could look like — and how your FFA involvement can help you get there.

By Lauren Quinlan|2025-01-06T14:15:58-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: Career Pathways, Features, FFA New Horizons, The Feed|Tags: AgCareers.com, agexplorer, agricultural business, ballweg implement, biotechnology, brock vetick, California FFA, cara crye wright, career pathways, farm supply, great plains manufacturing, Kansas FFA, land pride, matthew baxter, Milton Sabat González-Serrano, Nebraska FFA, precision agriculture, Puerto Rico FFA, settje agri-services and engineering, sheila jaeckel, skilled trades, sustainability, technology, the ohio state university, Wisconsin FFA|

8 Tips to Throw the Best Banquet Yet

Use this expert advice from FFA chapters in Tennessee, Arizona and Oregon to host a celebration to remember.

By Jodi Helmer|2025-01-06T14:15:12-05:00January 6th, 2025|Categories: Features, FFA New Horizons, The Feed|Tags: banquet set up, chapter banquets, harper ffa, Munford FFA, shopffa, willcox ffa|

Finding Focus in FFA

Lubbock-Cooper FFA Alumni and twins Faith and Caleb Snapp refuse to let vision impairment limit their dreams.

By Jodi Helmer|2024-08-02T11:34:16-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: Career Success, Features, FFA New Horizons, Student Focus, The Feed|Tags: caleb snapp, faith snapp, ffa talent, guide dogs for the blind, lubbock-cooper ffa, Texas FFA, texas ffa state officer|

What’s FFA Like in My Region?

Learn how our organization and the agriculture industry are similar (and different!) throughout the country.

By Lauren Quinlan|2024-08-06T16:27:35-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: Ag Angle, Chapter Focus, Features, FFA New Horizons, The Feed|Tags: arkansas school for the deaf, ffa regions, greeley west ffa, green bay southwest ffa, hagerman ffa, Hunterdon County Environmental Sustainability and Engineering Academy, mark twain ffa, National Officers, penn yan ffa, perrydale ffa|

Your How-To Guide for High-Caliber Chapter Programming

Two national award-winning chapters reflect on their journeys to the top and share tips for developing a successful Program of Activities.

By Courtney Leeper Girgis|2024-08-02T10:42:18-04:00August 2nd, 2024|Categories: 96th National FFA Convention & Expo, Chapter Focus, Features, FFA New Horizons, National Chapter, The Feed|Tags: building communities, carroll county middle school ffa, chapter programming, growing leaders, middle school model of excellence, model of excellence, national chapter awards, premier chapter, program of activities, stillwater ffa, strengthening agriculture|

Hands-on Education at Bristol Aggie

These students in Massachusetts are preparing for career success by learning to do and doing to learn every day.

By Courtney Leeper Girgis|2024-01-05T13:29:23-05:00January 5th, 2024|Categories: Agricultural Education, Career Pathways, Chapter Focus, Features, FFA New Horizons, The Feed|Tags: agricultural education, brian thornhill, bristol aggie, bristol county agricultural high school, brody del deo, Career Success, experiential learning, julianna dufresne, leslie blanchette, Massachusetts|

This Alumnus Is Wired for Growth

How Evan Vander Stoep developed a creative, high-tech solution to produce more feed for his campus farm in Oregon.

By Jodi Helmer|2024-01-05T10:10:29-05:00January 5th, 2024|Categories: Agriscience, Features, FFA New Horizons, Plant Systems, Student Focus, The Feed|Tags: agriscience research, barley, evan vander stoep, fodder, kathy mayfield, North Clackamas FFA, Oregon FFA, plant science, school farm|