FFA Timeline

By Nya.Manning

  • Smith Hughes Act

    Smith Hughes Act
    A landmark in the advance of federal centralization as well as in vocational education, created the Federal Board for Vocational Education for the promotion of training in agriculture, trades and industries, commerce, and home economics in the secondary schools

  • H.O. Sargent and G. W. Owens

    H.O. Sargent and G. W. Owens
    H.O. Sargent and G. W. Owens wrote the first constitution and bylaws of the New Farmers of Virginia

  • Founding of the FFA

    Founding of the FFA
    Future Farmers of America established in Kansas City, Mo.

  • NFA

    NFA
    The NFA was formed (New Farmer of America) for black students in the south.

  • Federal Charter

    Federal Charter
    FFA became one of a few student organizations to recieve a Federal Charter from Congress (Public Law 740)

  • Name change

    Name change
    IN 1988 the name was chaneg to Future Farmers of America

  • Convention

    Convention
    National convention completes 7 year run in Indianapolis and retuns to Louisville, Kentucky in 2013 for 3 years

  • NFA and FFA

    NFA and FFA
    NFA and FFA merged

  • Girls FFA

    Girls FFA
    Famales were allowed in FFA for the first time