National FFA Organization

National FFA Organization

FFA Emblem
Motto	Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live, Living to Serve
Formation	1928
Type	Youth organization
Legal status	Intra-Curricular Non-profit organization
Purpose	To make a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.
Headquarters	U.S. Department of Education Offices of Vocational and Adult Education
Region served	United States  Puerto Rico  United States Virgin Islands
Membership	649,355 (7,859 Chapters in 52 State Associations)
National Advisor	Dr. Steve A. Brown
Chief Executive Officer	Mark Poeschl
National President	David Townsend, Delaware
Website	www.ffa.org
Formerly called	Future Farmers of America

The National FFA Organization is an American youth organization, specifically a career and technical student organization, based on middle and high school classes that promote and support agricultural education. It was founded in 1925 at Virginia Polytechnic Institute, by agriculture teachers, Henry C. Groseclose, Walter Newman, Edmund Magill and Harry Sanders as Future Farmers of Virginia. In 1928 it became a nationwide organization known as Future Farmers of America. In 1988 the name was changed to the National FFA Organization, now commonly referred to as FFA, to recognize that the organization is for those with diverse interests in the food, fiber and natural resource industries, encompassing science, business and technology in addition to production agriculture. Today FFA is among the largest youth organization in the United States, with 629,366 members in 7,757 chapters throughout all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. FFA is the largest of the career and technical student organizations in U.S. schools.

The organization holds a congressional charter under Title 36 of the United States Code.

The National FFA Organization is a youth leadership organization that makes a positive difference in the lives of young people by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agriculture education.

FFA functions within the three-circle model of agricultural education as a student leadership organization that complements a student's classroom/laboratory instruction and supervised agricultural experience program. FFA members can compete in Career Development Events (CDE) that cover job skills in everything from communications to mechanics. Some events allow students to compete as individuals, while others allow them to compete in teams. These competitions can happen at a local or district level, state level, and on the national level.