Oregon FFA Alumni

Your state council was in beautiful Elkton, Oregon April 1st thru the 3rd working on way to make Oregon FFA Alumni even greater!  These volunteers from around Oregon are always striving to find bigger and better ways to support the amazing work that our local FFA Alumni chapters are doing for our students.  Be on the watch for great alumni development opportunities that will be coming from the team.  

Hot, humid, grits, hush puppies, ya-allllll and Ben Holmes on the bump for the Greensboro Grasshoppers…that’s right North Carolina. In early July my wife Pam and myself, Robert and Marge Schmidig, Jessica Rolland had the good fortune to represent Oregon at the 2015 National FFA Alumni Development Conference. Also, we had a surprise visit from Kathy and Wynn Mayfield who joined us for the taste of the state’s event. The conference was held in Raleigh, North Carolina 2 blocks from the home of the NC State University Wolfpack and the Historic bell tower. A land grant university with over 34,000 students and is part of the research triangle. For over 50 years the leaders in the fields of pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, agriculture and environment have called the triangle home. We had the opportunity to tour BASF, Bayer and Syngenta facilities that are also in the triangle. Research in seed production, bees, corn, tobacco and many more areas in production agriculture are being conducte...