Odessa FBLA students focus on agri-business

The Odessa High School chapter of FBLA (Future Business Leaders of America) formed a partnership with the AgriBusiness Council of Spokane in December of 2012. The goal was to work with the council to support and promote a strong, active and viable agriculture community in the Inland Northwest.

To learn more about the AgriBusiness Council, FBLA students met with Jay Allert, President of Aslin Finch Company and the committee chair of the AgriBusiness Council. Allert shared that agriculture is a 38-billion-dollar industry in Washington state, contributing 13% of the state’s income, as much as Boe...