Did your school have FFA or FHA? Were you a member?

FFA Future Farmers of America, FHA Future Homemakers of America

I’m not sure if FHA is still current?

I was in FFA and still have my jacket. No, I never planned on farming. I did bottle raise a calf. :wink:

What about your school? Did they offer it? Were you in it?

Though we have over 200 clubs, I’m pretty sure my school doesn’t offer FFA… It’s a prep school, so I’m pretty sure it doesn’t expect its students to become farmers in the future.

Blue corduroy, right?

Napolean Dynamite was in FFA.

Yup, with Black dress pants when we attended official FFA functions.

My high school had FFA. The town I grew up in is pretty suburban and yuppietastic now, but was much more rural only a generation ago, and there’s still a pretty strong agricultural heritage. There are still some dairy farms outside of town, although over the past fifteen years or so they’ve been encroached upon by ever-expanding vineyards. Places where I used to see cows when I was a kid are now covered in vineyards. I know that grape-growing is agriculture too, but I don’t know that FFA does a lot of viticulture.

This is in Sonoma County, California.

ETA: I was not in FFA. But it was pretty popular, actually. My high school had a whole clique of kids known as the “hicks”. They wore Wranglers and listened to country music and were in FFA.

My middle school had FHA. They would make aprons and put them on display in the glass cases in the halls, make “themed” catered meals for the teachers, make up household budgets, etc.

Neither, but my girlfriend’s high school (class '06) had FFA. I had never heard of it, and at first I thought she was kidding.

My high school, a million years ago, had both.The high school where live now has FFA. It does have something that looks like a modern FHA called FCCA. This is a list of all Riverdale’s clubs.

StG

That sounds like the FHA I knew back in the early 80’s.

There were only a few guys in my school that planned on taking over their parents farm. The rest of us simply enjoyed a rural lifestyle. Listened to country music, rode horses etc. We weren’t getting lessons in driving tractors and combines. :slight_smile:

I will say the two friends I know that did go into farming also had college degrees. These days Agri Science is critical for any farmer. The days of throwing a few seeds in the ground and hoping are long gone. Farming is pretty high tech these days and farmers need a lot of training in business. You have to understand the Futures market.

BTW, I graduated high school in 1996. A lot of the dairy farms turning into vineyards has happened since then, so I don’t know how what FFA is up to anymore. It’s definitely changed the feeling of the area.

We had FFA. I was not a member.

Yes and no. Both when I was in high school and where I teach now. In fact, we just abolished the Ag program on campus and turned the Ag building into Science labs.