Slaton ISD

Slaton FFA ~ Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve

The Slaton High School Agricultural Sciences and FFA Program empowers students to explore a wide range of opportunities within agriculture, leadership, and industry-related competitions. Through hands-on learning and active involvement in the FFA, students develop practical skills, gain valuable experience, and build confidence in areas such as animal science, plant science, agricultural mechanics, and more. The program encourages personal growth, career readiness, and leadership development, all while fostering a strong sense of community and pride in the agricultural industry.

What can students gain by participating in FFA?

Students builds self-confidence and self-esteem while promoting Agriculture.
Nursery & Landscape Team - State Qualifier

Rayleigh Rodgers, Presley Alford, Scarlett Chancey, Piper Rose
Meats Evaluation Team - State Qualifier

Olivia Newcomb, Kenon Diaz, Wesley Rose, Brayden Ricketts

The FFA Creed

I BELIEVE in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds - achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years.

I BELIEVE that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny.

I BELIEVE in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability of progressive agriculturists to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil.

I BELIEVE in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining; in the life abundant and enough honest wealth to help make it so--for others as well as myself; in less need for charity and more of it when needed; in being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me.

I BELIEVE that American agriculture can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring task.

The creed was written by E.M. Tiffany and adopted at the Third

National FFA Convention. It was revised at the 38th and 63rd Conventions.