Let’s meet an FFA member whose SAE is improving his family’s dairy herd!

Improving the ag industry requires farmers to constantly learn new technologies and be innovative.

For a California FFA member, that means learning the ins and outs of genomic testing, to improve genetics in his family’s dairy herd.

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