Livestock Auction July 25
For FFA (Future Farmers of America) members, high school has 3 major components; classroom work, FFA activities and the SAE projects. SAE stands for Supervised Agriculture Experience, and every student must complete an SAE project for the class. The projects range from raising a plant in the green house, working at a job, to spending most of your summer and the better part of your school year raising livestock to take to the county fair.
The students in the Susanville FFA learn plenty in all their projects. But it seems that as the cost of everything rises, the students also learn more about the lessons of real life in agriculture. Each year, the students either raise or purchase their livestock projects starting in October. They learn the responsibility of keeping animals healthy, growing, and most of all how to raise them to the proper harvest marketing weight and condition. Some years the students learn lessons the hard way. Mother Nature can cause havoc to their best plans; sickness can occur, sudden death can happen, or sometimes their animals just do not cooperate so that the students can take them to the fair. There are never any guarantees that when the projects start they will always end with financial success. But for sure, the students will never end their projects for the year without many lessons.
The 4-H program consists of many of the same processes; 4-H members as well as FFA members provide the communities they live in with many community service activities. Both organizations teach public speaking, record keeping, leadership and working together as a club.
This year’s projects for market animals, will conclude for the members at the Lassen County Fair. Animals weigh in on Tuesday, July 20 and show throughout the week. Check the fair website at www.lassencountyfair.org for more information. The year will end with the Lassen County JR Livestock Auction, Sunday July 25, starting at 8:00 am in the livestock pavilion. Come on down to the fair and watch our members working hard! Consider supporting them at the livestock auction. If anyone has any questions concerning the FFA program please call Lassen High School and leave a message for the FFA advisors. For 4-H information contact Darcy Hanson program coordinator at (530) 251-8285.
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