Agriculture has and always will be apart of life. Everything you see around you is apart of agriculture one way or another. As an FFA student and an FFA Officer I have found my love for agriculture and I love helping my community through it. My chapter helps with many community service activities and we're always hosting different things for our community to participate in and see what we do in the FFA. I believe that it is one of my duties as a part of this organization to inform and encourage people to see agriculture for what it really is. It's more than just cows, sows, and plows. It's more than dirt and the food you get in the grocery store. Agriculture is the land you walk on, the clothes on your back, the house you live in, and so much more. I hope to one day be an agricultural consultant so that way it's not just the big time farm owners and factories getting credit for their hard work. I want to help the small people, like the men that work in my small town, get credit and success for their hard work as well. My freshman year of high school an old family friend decided he wanted credit for his cattle and he asked me to show one of his heifers for him. Of course, he picked the craziest heifer you'd ever meet and he was the only person she would behave around. He passed suddenly a month before I was supposed to show her. I still talk about him on a regular basis and to this day, going on three years later, I try to get everybody to know about the cattle he was so proud of. While many people didn't care for him, my words have gotten others in my community and surrounding to work with his son who now manages the cattle and many people in my town now know of Matejka Cattle. This is something I'm extremely proud of myself for doing. While it may be just for a small town of maybe 3,000 people, I know my friend would be proud of what I'm doing for him if he were still alive. This is the kind of impact I hope to continue doing as I get older, more mature, and gain more experience. I hope one day everybody knows of Matejka Cattle and the bits of land he'd begun to acquire before he passed. But along with that, I hope I can continue building the small names, one ranch at a time.