When he joined the National FFA Organization in high school, Mexico, Missouri, native Grant Norfleet had no clue that he’d end up being chosen to lead the nation’s largest agricultural youth organization.
Earlier this year, the now-senior University of Missouri agricultural education and leadership major was selected to serve as the national secretary of the National FFA Organization, an association comprising almost 1 million young members wholeheartedly committed to becoming the next generation of leaders in the agriculture space.
Norfleet is temporarily putting his academic degree on pause to travel the country and represent FFA — and Mizzou — for thousands of students.
FFA is a youth organization that prepares its members to go forward as trailblazers of leadership and innovation in careers centered in the science, business and technology of agriculture.
Having joined his high school’s FFA chapter in ninth grade, Norfleet will don the classic blue corduroy jacket now for his seventh and final year in the organization.
“It has been a really humbling experience,” Norfleet, said. “So far, only six students per year get selected for this honor, and it's quite a rigorous process. To see the culmination of the journey I've had within the organization come to fruition has been not only rewarding but also really special because I’m able to give back to students and make this organization better than I found it.”
Trade secrets In Mexico, a town of just under 12,000 people deep in central Missouri, Norfleet grew up immersed in farm life. He and his brother participated in county and state fairs where they’d show market steers and breeding heifers that were raised on the farm that has been in his family for generations.
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