- December 22, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
FFA offered me incredible high school experiences for which I will always be grateful. Much of what I know about agriculture and animal husbandry came not only from growing up on a small farm, but also from the classroom and hands-on experiences FFA afforded. Looking back, I had no idea how important FFA would be in my career, but I sure do now. The number one industry in Arkansas’ Fourth District, which I’m privileged to represent in Congress, is agriculture. In fact, in the most recent 2017 Census of Agriculture, the Fourth District ranks first in the nation in poultry and egg sales and is home to a variety of other agricultural production including but not limited to forestry, row crops, produce, catfish, and cattle. For a small state, Arkansas is an agriculture powerhouse that we can be proud to know produces or has in reserve all the agriculture and natural resources needed for our state to be self-sustaining.
The agriculture industry…
