National FFA Convention and Expo brings 7,000+ students to Indianapolis

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13News reporter Karen Campbell reports from the FFA convention in downtown Indianapolis.

The goal is to grow the next generation of leaders and to encourage more diverse students to go into agriculture.

Students like Jaywon Sloan from Carlisle, Arkansas say he became interested in agriculture in middle school. Sloan serves as the Arkansas FFA State Officer. He was joined by Landon Henricks of Menifee, California and Makena Stanisai from Temecula, California. "Looking back on what we've come from and where we are now is definitely really inspiring to me because then I saw the difference between the NFA even and the FFA and just being kind of output by not being able to go to these conventions or go these conferences and be there with just everybody. When we had the NFA and FFA merger, that brought in a lot of diversity and inclusion," said Sloan.Western Growers Association, of the 3.

 

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