History of the National FFA Organization

By Kayelon Joyner

  • 1917

    Smith Hughes act established funding for vocational agriculture in high school

  • 1920

    Virgina was the first state to have Future Farmers Club for boys

  • 1928

    FFA becames a national organization. A network of teachers guided the establishment of FFA as a team effort to establish a club for boys with simialar farm interest

  • 1935

    NFA was formed (New Farmers of America) for black students in the south

  • 1950

    FFA becaome one of the few student organizations to recive a federal Charter from congress (Public Law 740)

  • 1965

    FFA and NFA merged

  • 1969

    Girls were allowed in the FFA for the first timie

  • 1988

    Name changed from the FFA to National FFA Organization

  • 2012

    National convention completes 7 years run in indianapolis and returns to Louisville, Kentucky in 2013 for 3 years