Lydia Johnson
National FFA Organization
When Liberti Sell moved from urban Las Vegas, Nevada, to rural Rappahannock County in Virginia, she had no interest in agriculture or joining FFA. That changed when her younger sister, an eighth-grader at the time, purchased a pig during an agricultural-class tour of a sale barn.
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