Youth Loan Hatches First Generation Chicken Farmer

High School student Wesley Davis came home from the county fair one summer with a chicken. Despite not living on a farm or having a family steeped in the farming tradition, Davis used a $5,000 FSA Youth Loan to expanded his single chicken operation into 250 free-range hens that produce nearly 20 dozen eggs a day. Working off of two acres of land in West Virginia, Davis sells his eggs to local residents and nine schools in the Mason County school district. Read more (Farm & Dairy).

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