-Grant provided by Farm Credit Services of America Working Here Fund for Agriculture Education
FIARBURY, NEBRASKA – Fairbury FFA received a $2,000 Working Here Fund grant for metal fabrication dreams. The grant is provided through Farm Credit Services of America’s (FCSAmerica) Working Here Fund.
Fairbury FFA will use funds to continue updating the metal fabrication and welding equipment of the Fairbury Agricultural Education shop. Funds will be used to purchase a 12” Grizzly Pan and Box Brake Bender, a Grizzly Compact Scroll Bender and a Hypertherm Plasma Cutter. These tools will offer hands-on learning experiences for the students, enhancing their skills and ability to use them in a career someday. They can use these tools to make custom metal fabrication and bring out their ideas and vision.
“There is a need for more skilled metal fabrication workers and welders in the community that will be self-employed and workers that are interested in some of the businesses in town that work with metal,” said Thomas Dux, Agriculture Education Instructor at Fairbury Schools. “I would love for my students to gain all of these experiences of bending metal, cutting metal, and fabricating metal in the Fairbury Agricultural Education Shop.”
“At FCSAmerica, we value the opportunity to support the future of agriculture,” said Amy Blomenberg, vice president of retail operations at FCSAmerica’s Beatrice office.
Fairbury FFA is one of 99 organizations to receive a Working Here Fund grant in the third quarter of 2016. FCSAmerica awarded $133,405 during the latest grant cycle ending September 30, 2016.
About Fairbury FFA
The mission of Fairbury FFA is to make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education. One of the major career success areas that has been a focus the past two years in the Fairbury FFA Chapter and the Fairbury Agricultural Education Program has been the Power, Structural, and Technical Systems Career Pathway. This focus has been updating and improving the metal fabrication and welding equipment.
About Farm Credit Services of America
Farm Credit Services of America is proud to finance the growth of rural America, including the special needs of young and beginning producers. With $25.4 billion in assets and $4.5 billion in members’ equity, FCSAmerica is one of the region’s leading providers of credit and insurance services to farmers, ranchers, agribusiness and rural residents in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Wyoming. Learn more at www.fcsamerica.com.
