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SHOW NOTES INTRODUCING ANNA LINK! As an entrepreneur, I really appreciate people who go out and seize opportunities. Actually, people who create their own opportunities are the ones that impress me most of all. Our guest today, Anna Link, did just that, and that is how she wound up being on this show. Anna reached out to me and another agricultural podcast host, Rob Sharkey, on Twitter and requested to be a podcast guest. I had her send me an email and let me know what she has been doing in the FFA, and it was a no-brainer. I booked her on the show right away. Creating her own opportunities seems to be a character trait of Anna's, as requesting to be a guest on this show is certainly not the only time that she has done this. Anna raises Hereford hogs, and she does so because they are so underrepresented in the show pig world. But she did not stop there. She started a Facebook group for people with Hereford hogs in Missouri. That group has grown and now has spread across state lines. Anna also took the initiative to be part of the 4H as well as the FFA, as her parents were not pushing her to go that direction, she lives in town and does not have a farm. Those efforts have led her in a good direction though, and she found herself serving as her chapter's president as well as her area's reporter. Enjoy this episode with this exciting young student. SUPERVISED AGRICULTURAL EXPERIENCE: Agricultural Communications, Bee Keeping & Pork Production HIGH SCHOOL: Moberly High School; Moberly, Missouri MASCOT: Spartans FFA ADVISOR: Mark Belcher CONTACT INFORMATION FOR ANNA LINK: Click on the picture below to be taken to the Moberly High School Ag. Department's website: Anna's FFA Advisor's Email Address: markbelcher@moberlyspartans.org Moberly High School's Telephone Number: 660.269.2600 FFA LINKS: National FFA Organization Supervised Agricultural Experiences (SAE's) Support FFA Donate to FFA - FFA students can start small businesses through an FFA grant of $1,000. In 2014, 141 FFA students received these grants. With your donations, more students can get this head start - pay it forward. REASONS TO DONATE TO FFA: Only 2% of Americans grow and raise most of the food and livestock consumed by the other 98% and the rest of the world. FFA provides the needed education, training, and resources to Americans that will carry that torch forward and ensure that America continues to have inexpensive, quality food. Rural Communities will rely on entrepreneurship in the future for population growth and job creation. The FFA is a major catalyst to that entrepreneurial growth. Farmers, ranchers, and those working in agriculture give the rest of America incredible amounts of freedom because the food search is as simple as going to the grocery store: “The future of American agriculture depends on the involvement and investment in America’s youth, In order to prepare for the population of tomorrow, we need to encourage America’s youth today, and show that careers in agriculture are profitable, rewarding, and vital.”. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Sonny Perdue More Places You Can Listen to Off-Farm Income And Matt Brechwald: