HOWARD — East Knox FFA members held an FFA spirit week in celebration of National FFA Week Feb. 17 to 21.
A different activity was conducted each day to help recognize and promote FFA and agriculture.
Activities included FFA shirt day, dress like a farmer/cowboy/cowgirl day, flannel day, and FFA colors day. Farm Credit Mid-America Utica office provided doughnuts to the FFA members on Thursday of National FFA Week
FFA is a dynamic youth organization that changes lives and prepares members for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
FFA develops members’ potential and helps them discover their talent through hands-on experiences, which give members the tools to achieve real-world success.
Members are future chemists, veterinarians, government officials, entrepreneurs, bankers, international business leaders, teachers and premier professionals in many career fields.
FFA is an intracurricular student organization for those interested in agriculture and leadership. It is one of the three components of agricultural education.
The official name of the organization is the National FFA Organization. The letters “FFA” stand for Future Farmers of America. These letters are a part of our history and our heritage that will never change.
Today, there are 1,027,273 FFA members in 9,235 chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Ohio FFA Association has 29,089 members in 329 chapters.