Cal Ag Plate
License Plate funds
benefit California
Association, FFA
If you’re like most of us, anytime you go to a FFA conference,
field day, booster event or any other agriculture oriented activity
there are a few unifying elements that always stand-out and let you
know that you’re in the right place. The school vans, boots, blue
jackets and now the unifying agriculture license plate. Spotting a
CalAgPlate at an FFA event, a livestock show or in any random
parking lot is particularly exciting for those FFA members and
advisors who can still recall the work that California Association,
FFA members put into making the program a reality.
Five years ago at the State FFA Conference former CDFA
Secretary A.G. Kawamura announced the CalAgPlate program,
and 2015 marked the first
year the FFA received funding
If you still haven’t
for the program. Agriculture
registered for your
themed
specialty
license
CalAgPlate, you can
plates hit the road in 2013,
purchase a plate on
following
a
tremendous
the DMV website
campaign
by
California
www.dmv.ca.gov
Association, FFA members to
and go to the “Online
secure 7,500 paid license
Services” link and then
plate pledges. In 2015 the
select “Special Interest
California Association, FFA
Plates”.
received just over $162,000
from the CalAgPlate program.
The program is funded with proceeds generated through the sale
and renewal of specialized, agriculture-themed license plates
through the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV). The
funding has allowed the FFA to enhance and restore programs
that were previously reduced due to budget cuts. The printing and
delivery of the CA FFA News is one of many programs that was
restored because of CalAgPlate funds.
The funds received so far