What is FFA?
The National FFA Organization is an American 501c youth organization, specifically a career and technical student organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education. It was founded in 1925 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, by agriculture teachers Henry C. Groseclose, Walter Newman, Edmund Magill, and Harry Sanders as Future Farmers of Virginia. In 1928, it became a nationwide organization known as Future Farmers of America. In 1988 the name was changed to the National FFA Organization, now commonly referred to as FFA, to recognize that the organization is for students with diverse interests in the food, fiber, and natural resource industries, encompassing science, business, and technology in addition to production agriculture. Today FFA is among the largest youth organizations in the United States, with 669,989 members in 8,630 chapters throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. FFA is the largest of the career and technical student organizations in U.S. schools.
Connecticut FFA
Chartered in 1930 with 40 original chapters the Connecticut FFA Association is now paired with 21 vocational agri-science schools across the state. With the highest teacher to student ratio in the country our members have the best opportunities offered.
The FFA looks for a promise of better days through better ways with the ultimate objective of premier leadership, personal growth, and career success. With Career Development Events encompassing all facets of the agricultural field, members can truly find their passion within the program and become the inspirational leaders of tomorrow while they do it. Everything taught in both vocational education centers and the FFA Chapters that co-exist with them promotes a style of learning to do, doing to learn, earning to live, and living to serve.
The Connecticut FFA Association will continue to teach its members to serve the agricultural industry and communities in our State