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FFA Smith-Hughes act

  • 1917

    1917
    Smith-Hughes act had established and had funding for vocational agriculture in high school.
  • 1920

    1920
    Virginia had been the first state to have a boys farmer club.
  • 1928

    1928
    FFA had become a national organization and a guided of teachers had established a club for boys with farm interests.
  • 1935

    1935
    NFA had formed a (New farmers of America) for black students in the south
  • 1950

    1950
    FFA had become a organization with few students to receive a charter from congress.
  • 1965

    1965
    FFA (Future Farmers of America) and NFA (New Farmers of America) had been merged.
  • 1969

    1969
    Girls were first allowed in the FFA for the first time.
  • 1988

    1988
    FFA (Future Farmers of America) had been changed to National FFA organization to reflect on the growing.
  • 2012

    2012
    National conventions had completed 7 years run in Indianapolis and goes to Louisville and Kentucky but stays there for 3 years.