5-16 IAN FFA V.P.

 Ayla Neumeyer  is the Idaho FFA Vice President and a student at the University of Idaho majoring in agribusiness and political science. When I asked her about the future of agriculture which is changing, she told me some of the things she would like to do as she moves into her career. “My experience as an FFA officer has made advocating for agriculture incredibly important to me and it is something that I would like to do for the rest of my life. I hope to work as a lobbyist with trade organizations to help advocate for the industry because I think, especially with all the changes we have seen in the industry, there are a lot of people who do not understand it very well and that is a shame because it is incredibly important to everyone in the country.”  I asked her about the increasing world population and wanted her thoughts on how we could help feed a hungry world, particularly in the future. “The only way we the demands of the growing population is to continue to work towards increasing technology in agriculture and along with that, increasing literacy about agriculture especially regarding technology, genetically modified crops are a huge way we can increase production in each acre but a lot of people don’t understand anything about GMO so it is important for us to communicate that to people and have actual information because there are all these different sources that are telling 1 million different things.