SAE Visits

As many of my readers know, an ideal Agriculture Education Program embraces the three-circle model. Often times the most difficult circle to include in a program is SAE. Utilizing SAE in the classroom allows students to apply their agricultural knowledge outside the classroom and develop skills that we many not be able to teach inside our classroom.

SAE visits are critical in keeping students on the proper course of growth and development in their SAE projects. Bonuses of SAE visits include bonding with the student and developing a professional relationship and well as gaining a better understanding of their home life and developing relationships with their parents. 

During the York Fair, Mrs. Barzydlo and I visited with two students to complete their SAE visit. One was a dairy beef project and one was a swine project. 

While we visited with the students we asked critical questions about their goals, challenges they faced, and their accomplishments with the project animals. 

The student with the dairy beef project was a graduate that will be receiving his American FFA Degree in October. While we visited he shared some of his beef and cheese bologna with us to taste. He mentioned that there had been a communication error with the local butcher he uses and they had made the bologna roll larger than the previous times, which he was not please about for sale purposes.

Both students were showing several animals at the York Fair and were excited. They felt confident in the animals they raised