Youth to explore careers in oyster farming

When Ron Bader was a ninth grader in the 1940s, he used a Future Farmers of America project to raise two batches of 500 chickens. When he cashed out on the project, he had enough money to buy his first automobile, a 10-year-old 1940 Chevy Sedan. “It was an experience I’ll never forget,” said Bader, who was raised Reese, Mich. When FFA alumni Hannah Harrison put out a call to alumni to help formulate projects for today’s high school students, Bader remembered his own experience and answered

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