Sheldon, Iowa — This week has been National FFA Week in the country’s schools. Several schools in our area and nationwide celebrate the week with many activities.
For those not familiar with FFA, we asked Sheldon FFA Secretary Douglas Nilles what FFA is all about.
He tells us what they did to celebrate.
He tells us about the Sheldon FFA chapter.
He tells us who FFA is for.
Many FFA chapters do a tractor day during FFA week, when they drive one of their family’s tractors to school. Some schools have a contest for the cleanest tractor, the oldest tractor, and so forth. Nilles tells us the Sheldon FFA chapter does this during National Ag Day, which, this year, is on Tuesday, March 18th.
For the first 60 years of its existence, until 1988, FFA stood for Future Farmers of America. Those in charge at the time decided that the name was too narrow to reflect the organization’s growing membership, so the letters “FFA” were kept, but the meaning of the acronym was removed.
