The members of the 2019 Youth
Agriculture Lifetime Leadership (Y.A.L.L.) Board would like to personally
invite you to come experience a life-changing event.
This youth learning experience is
one that is undoubtedly most practical in terms of its goals. Participants from
across the State of Texas commit and dedicate six days and five nights to
understand production agriculture and what it takes to feed this country.
Throughout this experience they learn about the dynamics of the agricultural
industry, including: horticulture, beef cattle, problem solving, marketing,
finance, education, leadership, and more. At the completion of their time
invested, the participants, as producers, have the opportunity to defend every
decision making process throughout each learning experience via an oral
presentation. This allows them a chance to advocate and support practices
utilized in our advancing agriculture.
Year after year, we observe that
this Y.A.L.L. experience has made a lasting impact on young peoples’ futures.
We believe this Youth Agriculture Lifetime Leadership model could grow and
adapt towards extra opportunities including, but not limited to the following:
additional leadership opportunities, broadening educational perspectives, and
increasing the real world application prospect to further enhance the knowledge
base of all youth involved.
The
tour will depart from the Kerr County Extension office in Kerrville on July
14th and return to the Kerr County Extension office on July 19th. The cost to
the participants for the 6 days is $200 each with a $100 deposit submitted with
the application. 4-H members that have a strong interest in production
agriculture who are outgoing high school freshmen through outgoing seniors are
invited to apply and 30 youth will be selected. Application deadline is April
1, 2019. Applicants will be notified of their selection in to the program by
May 1, with the remaining balance being due May 30th.
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