National FFA President Andrew Seibel and past National FFA Eastern Region Vice President Tess Seibel are the first brother and sister to serve as national officers in the 95-year history of the organization. You could say the Seibel family has blue and gold in its genes. How do family characteristics turn into competencies of premier leadership? Learn from the Seibel siblings about how their childhood shaped them into the agricultural leaders they are today.
Tess and Andrew are the third generation to farm their family land in Virginia. Here is Tess with her grandfather learning to plant the first grapevines on the farm. “At this point in life, I wasn’t quite old enough to speak, but there is tremendous value in listening and learning from the first generation,” Tess says.
