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Max Armstrong shares some history about the 90-year old FFA
Max Armstrong looks back at the beginning of the Future Farmers of America, where in the early years allowing young women to join was prohibited. Max looks back at ways women could take part before the group opened its ranks in the 1960s.
Farm Progress America is a daily look at key issues in agriculture. It is produced and presented by Max Armstrong, veteran farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.