Selling seed, building confidence

FFA students get lesson in seed sales through fundraising program

Janelle Atyeo
Apr 11, 2025
Apr 11, 2025

FFA seed bags 2.png — Brevant’s Turn the Bag Blue and Gold program has donated over $365,000 to FFA since its inception in 2017.
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A big fundraiser for FFA chapters each year involves selling boxes of fruit. One South Dakota chapter is raising money by selling specially branded bags of seed corn and building confidence through the experience.

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FFA seed bags.jpeg — Steven Senyak, retail sales agronomist Brevant seeds in Gettysburg, S.D., displays a specially branded bags used for an FFA fundraiser. Senyak has worked with the Dupree FFA chapter for the last two years, teaching them a bit about retail sales and agronomy while raising money
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Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.