FFA History

  • Smith Hughes Act

    Smith Hughes Act
    Smith Hughes act to find vocational education
  • clubs for boys

    clubs for boys
    Virginia is the first state to Future Famers clubs for boys
  • FFA becomes national organization

    FFA becomes national organization
    network of teachers guided the establishment of FFA as a team effort to establish a club for boys with similar farm interests
  • NFA is formed

    NFA is formed
    New Farmers of America for black male students
  • federal charter from congress

    federal charter from congress
    FFA became one of few student organizations to recieve federal Charter from congress (public law 740)
  • Merging

    Merging
    FFA and NFA merge
  • girls in ffa

    girls in ffa
    girls were allowed in ffa for the first time
  • name change

    name change
    name changed from future farmers of America to National FFA
  • National Convention

    National Convention
    National Convention completes 7 year run in Indianapolis and returns to Louisville, kentucky in 2013 for 3 years