Colby Student Earns Dairy SAE Grant

Wednesday, December 21st, 2022 -- 2:01 PM

A $1,000 Dairy SAE grant has been awarded to Jacob Raatz of Colby.

SAE grants are designed to help FFA members create or expand Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) projects, a requirement that all FFA members must complete.

An SAE requires FFA members to create and operate an agriculture related business, work at an agriculture-related business or conduct an agricultural research experience.

Upon completion, FFA members must submit a comprehensive report regarding their career development experience. This year 30 different sponsors funded SAE Grants.

Raatz is a member of the Colby FFA Chapter.  Their application was selected from among 1,296 applications nationwide. He plans to use his money towards the purchase of a jersey heifer to expand his jersey herd.

The National FFA Organization is a school-based national youth leadership development organization of more than 850,000 student members as part of 8,995 local FFA chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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