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Grace Platte, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Grace Platte is one of our Michigan Ag Council Ambassadors. She’s studying agricultural education at Michigan State University, and she works two jobs and she manages social media for the College of...
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Michael Ceja, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Michael Ceja, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador, is studying business management at Delta College. His sophomore year of high school he got involved in FFA and got interested in ag advocacy and youth...
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Hailey Andres, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Hailey Andres just graduated from University of Michigan-Flint with a degree in graphic design and marketing. When she joined FFA at New Lothrop High School, she became interested in agriculture and...
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Madelyn Cary, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Madelyn Cary lives on her family’s farm where they grow cash crops and raise cattle. They also recently began running the Elwell Elevator. She’s beginning at Michigan State University in the fall to...
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Emma Grant, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Emma Grant is a junior at Michigan State University, where she’s double majoring in horticulture and crop and soil science, and minoring in ag business. Her hometown is Suttons Bay, and she’s enjoyed...
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Haili Gusa, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Haili Gusa became interested in agriculture through FFA, where she served as a chapter, regional, and state officer. Her involvement led to showing pigs at the county fair, entering many speaking...
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Potatoes, Sustainability and Family Tradition
By: Lauren Heberling If you were asked where the potatoes for a bag of crunchy potato chips were grown, what would you say? For most of us, an Idaho potato commercial will start running through our...
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Lauren Heberling, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Lauren recently graduated from Michigan State University with a dual major in agribusiness management and food industry management from the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources. She’s now...
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Yoga on the Farm
By: Hailey Andres What do you get when you take an apple orchard, sunflower patch, a whole bunch of goats, a yoga instructor, and a little bit of creativity? Yoga on the Farm! I had been practicing...
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Jacob Hoskins, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Jacob Hoskins, who recently graduated from Ferris State University, just started as a program technician for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency in St Johns. After working on farms...
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St. Johns Family Continues its Labor of Love for Generations to Come
By: Michael Ceja After high school, Mike Beck chose to go to work away from home in the construction of restaurants and such, but when it came time to settle down and start his own family, he knew...
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Cook Dairy Farm
By: Grace Platte A Breath of Fresh Air That is what it is like to learn and talk to Miriam Cook, a 5th generational dairy farmer in the heart of Michigan. I was met at the car by Miriam as she opened...
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Erin Keller, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Erin Keller recently graduated with her BS in Biosystems Engineering from Michigan State University, and now she’s an engineer at Consumers Energy. She became interested in agriculture through her...
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5 Reasons Agriculture Education is Important
By: Caitlin Luck Promoting agriculture education programs in a school-based setting is essential to maintaining a well-educated consumer base and increasing interest in potential careers within...
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Ben Zaleski, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Ben Zaleski, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador, became interested in agriculture by growing up around it in Port Austin and participating in FFA in high school. He’s a junior at Michigan State...
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Caitlin Luck, Michigan Ag Council Ambassador
Caitlin Luck is a senior at Michigan State University majoring in agricultural education. Her family farm in Sand Creek grows corn, soybeans, and wheat. She knew since seventh grade she wanted to go...
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Have You Herd About This Soap?
By: Haili Gusa Pulling up to the house where my harvest hangout video would take place, I couldn’t help but smile. This was where my agriculture education teacher and her family live. I had spent many...
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Amy Spitznagel, Idyll Farms
Amy Spitznagel owns Idyll Farms, a goat farm and creamery located in Northport, Michigan. Following a career as a teacher, flight attendant, and actress, Amy and her husband Mark decided to embrace...
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Lyndsay Earl, Member Rep at Michigan Milk Producers Association
Lyndsay Earl is a member representative at Michigan Milk Producers Association, which is a milk co-op. Originally from a dairy farm, Lyndsay graduated in animal science – agribusiness management...
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