AX-Lanctster Farming, Saturday, November 26,1988
American Farmer Degree
KANSAS CITY, Mo.— Mat
thew Pflieger of Manheim joined
an elite group of FFA achievers
today.
Pflieger received the National
FFA Organization’s highest
degree of membership, that of
American Farmer. Along with 713
other degree recipients, the Man
heim Chapter member was hon
ored at the 61st National FFA
Convention in Kansas City, Mo.
One of the highlights of the
convention, the American Farmer
degree ceremony, included the
presentation of a certificate and
gold key to Pflieger as he walked
across the convention stage with
thousands of FFA members in the
audience.
The American Farmer degree is
presented annually at the national
FFA convention to the top two
Matthew Pflleger of Manheim recently received his Ameri
can Farmer Degree at the National FFA Convention. Making
the presentation was Edwin Ochsner, national secretary.
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tenths of one percent of FFA
membership. Awarding of the
degree is based upon a member’s
Supervised Occupational Experi
ence (SOE) program in agribusi
ness or production agriculture and
his or her leadership ability as
demonstrated through involve
ment in FFA activities.
The American Fanner degree
program is a special project of the
National FFA Foundation, co
sponsored by the Armstrong Tire
Company, New Haven, Conn.;
Case IH, Racine, Wis.; Cyanamid
Agricultural Division, Wayne,
NJ.; Na-Churs Plant Food Com
pany, Marion, Ohio; the Farm
Credit System, Denver, Colo.; and
Pioneer Hi-Bred International,
Inc., Des Moines, lowa.
The FFA is a national organiza
tion of 404,900 students in 7,800
Reconsidering The Federal Crop Insurance Program
didn’t have much of a com crop
left tie figures it might have aver
aged 18-20 bushels an acre. He’s
not sure, though, because he had
to harvest all 133 acres as silage
for his dairy herd. He usually
grows enough to provide most of
the com grain he feeds as well;
this winter he will have to buy
chapters preparing for careers in instead,
the industry of agriculture. FFA Keller has help however. It’s
activities and award programs likely, for instance, he’ll qualify
complement instruction in agri- f or some payments under the
business, agriscience and produc- drought assistance program
tion agriculture by giving students passed by Congress in September,
practical experience in the appli- Moreover, he, like a number of
cation of agricultural skills and other farmers in the area, had fed
knowledge gained in classroom eral crop insurance on his com
instruction. A major emphasis of crop. He’ll get a hefty benefit
the FFA is the development of check even though he harvested
skills and abilities to prepare those acres for silage,
young people for leadership roles “if it wouldn’t be for the insur
in agriculture. ance, there would be a lot of guys
BY KARL BERGER
Special Correspondent
It wasn’t a good year for Walter
Keller, a dairy farmer near Tyr
one. Pa., in Blair County. When
the drought and the hungry deer
were done with his, fields, he
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