BAHS Alum Highlight:
written by Myken Poorman
Bailey Little is the first Bellefonte FFA member in at least 20 years who has been awarded an American Degree. Often referred to as "The Gold Standard", the American Degree is the highest degree achievable in the National FFA Organization. It shows an FFA member’s dedication to his or her chapter and state FFA association. It demonstrates the effort FFA members apply toward their supervised agricultural experience and the outstanding leadership abilities and community involvement they exhibited through their FFA career. The American FFA Degree recipients show promise for the future and have gone above and beyond to achieve excellence.The requirements to earn the American FFA Degree are set forth in the National FFA Constitution. To be eligible to receive the American FFA Degree, members must meet qualifications such as receiving a State FFA Degree, holding active membership for the past three years, completing secondary instruction in an agricultural education program and operating an outstanding supervised agricultural experience program. Community service, leadership abilities and outstanding scholastic achievement are also required.
Bailey is a graduate from Bellefonte High School class of 2023. She has been an active member of the Bellefonte FFA chapter since her freshman year. Bailey’s FFA projects include raising dairy cows, beef cattle, dairy goats, rabbits, poultry, and dairy beef cattle that she exhibits at shows throughout the year and at the Centre County Grange Fair. Bailey owns a small business, Queen B Farm, where she makes handmade western jewelry and clothing. Bailey and her fiancé also own Double L Cattle company. They raise beef cattle to supply meat to local grocery stores. In her free time, Bailey enjoys training her horses and competing in rodeos in the barrel racing and breakaway roping events.