FFA History 

https://www.ffa.org/ffa-history/  
 
Part 1:​ A Moment in History 
Please pick from 1 of these 6 moments in FFA History. 
 
1. Latinos/Hispanics in FFA 
2. Women in Agriculture 
3. Smith Hughes 
4. The FFA Jacket 
5. Native Americans and other culture diversity in FFA 
6. The NFA  
 
You will have about 20 minutes to go through the video for this moment in history. While you are going 
through the moment in history you choose please fill in the questions for your section as you will be asked to 
report to the group about what you learned. 
 
Area 1:​ Latino/Hispanics in FFA (​https://youtu.be/PbP4iiceEto​ ) 
1. What year was this video created? 
2. How many Latino/Hispanic members were in FFA at the time of this video? 
3. Even with cultural diversity how does FFA continue to encompass and grow generations? 
4. What relationship does FFA have to Lation/Hispanic ties (think about family)? 
 
Area 2: ​Women in Agriculture (​https://vimeo.com/331288674​ ) 
1. Out of the 5 groups which 2 said that the females should be involved in FFA? 
2. What year did congress pass the Civil Rights Acts? Why did this change the idea of not having 
females in FFA? 
3. What year did the FFA vote finally allow women in and what convention did this happen at (state or 
national)? 
4. What was the first year women served as delegates at the National FFA Convention? 
5. Have we had a female national officer, female national president, female African American national 
president? 
 
Area 3:​ Smith Hughes Act (​https://www.ffa.org/about/what-is-ffa/ffa-history/1917-smith-hughes-act/​ ) 
1. What year did this act take place? 
2. What is this act and why is it important to FFA? Especially to the start of FFA? 
3. What was the focus of trying to add agricultural education into schools for all students? 
4. How did this act impact the future of agriculture since it had been signed into place, especially today? 
 
Area 4: ​The FFA Jacket (​https://www.rfdtv.com/story/41233046/the-history-of-the-the-blue-ffa-jacket​ ) 
Take a moment to read through the article with the two videos. 
1. What year was the blue corduroy jacket adopted as the official dress of the Future Farmers of 
America? 
2. What was the original inspiration for the FFA jacket? 
3. What were the two reasons originally that J.H. Litner wanted the FFA jacket for his students? 
4. How much was the first FFA jacket? 
 
Area 5: ​Native Americans and other culture diversity in FFA (​https://youtu.be/_GNm_XwWp5E​ ) 
1. How many FFA Chapters serve students who identify as Native American? 
2. What values overlap those of FFA? 
3. How do Native Americans express the meaning of corn and how that can relate to what it symbolizes 
in FFA? 
4. This video did a great job to show how FFA not only teaches students but it also shows how FFA can 
better the community. Please describe what the FFA chapter in this video is doing to help its 
community. 
 
Area 6:​ The NFA (​https://youtu.be/zCGedMsdugQ​ ) 
You will want to fast forward the video to 0:40 seconds. 
1. What was the NFA? 
2. What year was the NFA established or founded? 
3. What year did the NFA and FFA merge? 
4. How did the FFA help many African American’s achieve further? 
 
Part 2: T
​ he FFA Timeline 
Year  National FFA  Greeley West FFA 

1928    - 

1929    Greeley West FFA was chartered at Greeley 

Central originally. 

1930    - 

1947-1948    - 

1973    Our FFA program moved out of Greeley Central 

and into Greeley West 

1982    - 

1994    - 

2003    - 

2012    Greeley west compelets 1 Million Hour 

Challenge- providing 1 million hours to volunteer 
work 

2014-2015  -  Greeley West has student elected as National FFA 

Officer- Kristen Schmidt