OCTOBER 2015

VOLUME 1, ISSUE 1

T HE

F EN CE

PO S T

MAYER FFA

WHAT IS FFA
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

The letters FFa stand for

Future Farmers of America.
Its more than just a farming

GREENHAND
CONFERENCE

class. FFA also welcomes

GREENHAND
OFFICERS

CHAPTER

OFFICERS

ADVISOR

CORNER

BEHIND THE
SCENES

members who aspire to careers as teachers, doctors,

scientists, business owners
and more. For this reason,
the name of the organization was updated in 1988
after a vote of national convention delegates to reflect
the growing diversity and
new opportunities in the
industry of agriculture.

broad range of agricultural

career pathways. So today,
we are still the Future Farmers of America. But, we are
the Future Biologists, Future
Chemists, Future Veterinarians, Future Engineers and
Future Entrepreneurs of
America, too.

The Mayer FFA chapter at Spring

Conference! Everyone gave it their
all and were proud f them

FFA continues to help the

next generation rise up to
meet challenges by helping
its members to develop their
own unique talents and explore their interests in a

OUR PLANS FOR FFA

INSIDE STORY

INSIDE STORY

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

Barbeque
October 21st

Chart your pathways event

November 7th

State Mid-winter CDEs

December 4th

National FFA Convention

October 27th 31st

Veterans Day
November 11th

Christmas Break
December 21st-January 3rd

Thanksgiving Break
November 25th-27th

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GREENHAND CONFERENCE
Several Mayer High School
students were afforded the
opportunity to attend the FFA
Greenhand Conference located in Flagstaff, Arizona in
September. The conference
educated students on future
agricultural careers and education opportunities across
the state.
During the conference students learned about various
Career Development Events.
There were many CDEs of-

fered that students can participate in. The activities

planned helped students
determine what events they
might be interested in. One of
the CDEs that caught my
attention was Veterinary Science, which taught knowledge and skills in that field of
study. There were over twenty
different great opportunities
to help students gain knowledge and experience.

students had a better understanding of the FFA program

and potential for success for
their FFA career. It also allowed students to meet other
members from different
schools in Arizona.
-Tyler Gregory

Mayer FFA flag post. The class

of 2016 put hard work and
determination into setting it up.

At the end of the day, the

MEET THE GREENHAND OFFICERS

I am excited to be your green hand president. I like Motocross and FFA. I would say I
love FFA because it gets you involved with
awesome activities. I am looking forward to
this year in serving you as your green hand
president.

Learning to
do,
Doing to
learn,
Earning to

Tyler Gregory
President

live,
I am Greenhand vice President. This is my first year in
FFA. My favorite things about
FFA are meeting new people
and learning more about
agriculture everyday.
Hailey Porter
Vice President

I am very courageous. My
class mates turn to me for
leadership advice. I also
enjoy hunting and camouflage!

serve

Autumn Waldeck
Secrartary

I am excited to serve as your

greenhand chapter treasurer. I like baseball and in
my spare time I enjoy hanging out with my best friend Ty
Ty.
Diego Moreno
Treasurer

Living to

I enjoy working with animals.

I also love softball. Im very
excited to be a bigger part of
FFA in the future.

Mikelle Larsen
Reprter/Sentinel

Ty-ty, Diego and Cody work

together to clean up the Mayer
FFA campus.

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MEET THE CHAPTER OFFICERS

John Yarbrough
President

Moriah Sons
Vice President

I enjoyed being in the aquaculture Career

Development Event, where we did a feed
ratio and the second year, we filleted a tilapia/bass. I enjoy bow hunting white tail. I also
enjoy cooking. I study at the MiJTED program,
and I hope to major in molecular gastronomy
at Oregon State

I love going on field trips

with FFA. Its a great experience for you to get
out and learn new things.
I enjoy helping people
and pretty much anything
having to do with ice
cream.

Jaffiry Schibel
Treasurer

James Field
Reprter
I love how much FFA
teaches you. Not just
about farming, but things
like a work ethic, concentration and leadership. I
enjoy watching movies
and writing stories.

FFA has inspired me to encourage

others to be in FFA, so I became a
chapter officer. My hobbies include getting injured and being
around animals. I love being
around animals and I enjoy my
involvement in my chapter

Cambree Swink
Secretary

I have been a part of FFA

for about two years now.
My favorite things about
FFA are being a leader
and teaching others
about agriculture and
traveling to compete in
several educational competitions.

Tori Nosack
Sentinel
FFA is an amazing opportunity to
meet new people, learn new things,
and do things youve probably never
thought youd do. My hobbies include
eating chicken nuggets, spending time
with my boyfriend, and watching
American Horror Story. Also, FFA is my
only extra-curricular activity and I
wouldnt want it any other way.

The FFA Creed

Were on the web!

I believe in the future

Mayerag.weebly.com

of agriculture, with a

A BIG THANKS TO

faith born not of

THANKS!

words but of deeds -

Mr. and Mrs. Uecker

achievements won by

Mr. and Mrs.Swink

the present and past

Mr. Matherns

generations of agri-

Mr. Richardson
Mr. LaRue

culturists; in the

Ms. Sandy Hanks

promise of better days

Mr. Clint Demoss

through better ways,

Mr. Jody Swink

even as the better

things we now enjoy
have come to us from
the struggles of former years.

BACK PAGE STORY HEADLINE

Hi and welcome to Mayer
FFA. I am very excited to be
the new agriculture instructor
here at Mayer. When I first
came to visit the school and
the agriculture facilities I was
in awe at all of the land,
space, and potential. I was
happy to hear that students
wanted animals and to rebuild the animal program. As
many may have seen, we are
in the process of rebuilding a
lot of the land lab. The two
main things that I have
stressed time and time again
with my students, is that we
build a sense of community
and that we get the animal
program up and running. In
addition to that we have
been working on creating an
aquaculture center, restructure the greenhouse, clean
and stock the pond, utilize
our shop in more ways, and

long experiences. I hope that

you can find a way to be a
part of the program whether
as a student, parent, or volunteer. God bless.
-Mr. Jeff Dinges

making sure our vineyard

stays intact and in good use.
The students have worked
very hard and I am very
happy to see how the rest of
the semester goes. My wife
and two beautiful children
have been very supportive of
this new position and have
enjoyed in helping me with
my vision for the program. I
hope that we can come back
from competitions with wins,
a sense of learning, and life-

Hi my name is Dale Uecker

and I have assisted in the Ag
Program for 6 years. In that
time this has been the best
freshman class and hardest
working students weve had. I
am looking forward to getting
more students certified in
welding as we currently have
47 total certs. My goal is to
hit 100 certifications before I
retire. I also hope that you
enjoyed our BBQ this year; we
won state at Arizona FFA
State Conference with this
recipe!
-Dale Uecker

The FFA team during the State

Leadership Conference in July.