Students Visit Dixie Chopper

 

State officers from the Indiana FFA listen as Dixie Chopper Marketing Manager Rick Judy (right) explains some of the special features of a new, propane-powered Dixie Chopper mower.

Members of the largest agriculture-related youth organization in America made a recent visit to lawn-mower maker Dixie Chopper in west-central Indiana. Eight representatives of the Indiana Future Farmers of America (FFA) made a Dec. 6 visit to Coatesville, Ind., touring Dixie Chopper facilities, and seeing first-hand how the manufacturing process works.

Brian Buchanan, executive director of the Indiana FFA Foundation, accompanied the group. The teenagers are all high school graduates who have taken a year off from school before attending college to live and work at the FFA facility in Trafalgar, Ind.