The Liberty County High School FFA Chapter celebrated National FFA Week, Feb. 15- 20. The celebration embraces over 90 years of tradition and values while exciting all for the future of FFA. Creating a space for the youth to raise awareness about the National FFA organization’s role in developing future leaders in agriculture and the importance of agriculture education.

Beginning in 1948, the National FFA Board of Directors created a designated week that runs throughout George Washington’s birthday, providing National FFA members an opportunity to demonstrate their FFA pride and raise awareness of the importance of FFA.

During the week, chapters all around the country conduct a variety of activities and give members opportunities to help their community to educate all about FFA and agriculture as a whole. But the FFA organization doesn’t do it all on its own, chapters receive lots of support from many sponsors, for example, FFA week is nationally sponsored by Tractor Supply.

The Liberty County High School radiated with pride as they celebrated National FFA week by conducting and participating in many activities such as SAE Sunday, Community Day of Service, FFA Breakfast, Reading with the Blue and Gold, Ag Olympics, and so much more.

Through the hands-on learning FFA provides, these members demonstrate that they are the leaders of tomorrow. With the knowledge and skills FFA provides, it allows members to pursue more than 350 careers. The Liberty County High School FFA chapter is no different and provides agricultural education to 148 students this year.

The National FFA Organization, formerly known as Future Farmers of America, is a schoolbased youth leadership development organization for over 1,000,000 students spread across the 9,407 local FFA chapters in all 50 states as well as Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.