Sweet Repeat: Another Young Educator Earns National FFA Title With Help From Ag Moves
By: Emma Alexander
Missouri FFA alum, Lynn Dyer, is the 2025 National FFA Agricultural Education Proficiency Award winner. Lynn is the second Missouri FFA member to earn this title through her experiences as a partner educator for Agriculture Education on the Move™ (Ag Moves). It’s practically a tradition.
Following Steps to Success
Lynn’s achievements reflect Ag Moves’ growing national reputation as a program where dedication, education, and leadership thrive. Ag Moves fans the flames of high school career passions and helps turn them into lifelong commitments. According to Lynn, engaged FFA partner educators can follow this proven path to success, too.
#1. Become an FFA Partner Educator
“My ag advisors enrolled our chapter in Ag Moves and encouraged me to pursue agricultural education as a career,” Lynn says.
Lynn began teaching Ag Moves in 2023 at Grandview Elementary as a member of the Higginsville FFA Chapter in Agri-Ready Designated Lafayette County
#2. Attend an FFA Partner Training Day
“I shared my Ag Moves expertise with FFA members during the training day at Northwest Missouri State University last fall. The training is a valuable way for high school educators to become familiar with the program and a great place to ask questions.” Ag Moves offers FFA Partner Training Days each year at Mizzou, Northwest Missouri State University, Ozarks Technical College, Missouri State University, Three Rivers Community College and in Jackson, Mo.
#3. Teach. Make a Local Impact and Increase Agriculture Literacy
Lynn invested two of her college summers teaching Ag Moves: one at youth camps in urban Kansas City and another in rural elementary schools.
“During my first lesson in Kansas City, no one had ever heard the word ‘agriculture,’ and some genuinely believed chocolate milk came from brown cows. Even in my rural hometown, elementary students were still shocked to learn that soybeans are used to make crayons and cattle bones can be a marshmallow ingredient,” Lynn remembers. “Teaching Ag Moves showed me how critical ag education is at every level and strengthened my motivation to bridge the gap between farmer and consumer.”
#4. Incorporate your Experience into Your FFA Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE)
“I built upon my experiences over time, adding more classes and students each year. I also taught the Ag Innovators Experience program through the University of Missouri Extension and facilitated LEAD Conferences for Missouri FFA. These varied projects, including teaching all ages in urban and rural settings, is what made my SAE stand out.”
#5. Apply for a Missouri FFA Agricultural Education Proficiency Award
“I didn’t think of education as my SAE. My amazing advisor, Mr. Brock, encouraged me to fill out a proficiency application. I never imagined it would go as far as it did!”
When Ag Moves is a part of your proficiency award application, area winners receive $100 awards, the state runner-up receives $500, and the winning Missouri Agriculture Education Proficiency application receives a $750 scholarship.
#6. Write the Rest of the Story
“Ag Moves allowed me to share my passion for agriculture,” Lynn says. “I will continue to use the classroom management and communication skills I have gained in my career. I am excited to see the impact Ag Moves will continue to make for FFA partner educators and Missouri agriculture.”
Just like Lynn, you write the rest of the story! Ag Moves provides the tools and framework for FFA members to become star agriculture educators and advocates. It is up to each member to polish that star and see how high it can fly!
More About Lynn
Lynn grew up on her family’s diversified cattle and row crop farm and graduated Lafayette County C-1 High School in 2024. She served as a 2023-2024 Missouri FFA State Vice President. She is a junior at Northwest Missouri State University, planning to graduate with her agricultural education degree in 2027.
Repeat Offender: This isn’t Lynn’s first appearance on a National Stage. She is a 2024 U.S. Presidential Scholar, a capstone to her impressive accomplishments in career and technical education fields during high school and her extensive state-level leadership in 4-H and FFA.
Leadership According to Lynn: “I used to think leadership was about titles and positions, but I have grown to understand that leadership is the action you take and the way you help those around you. A title doesn’t make a leader. Action makes a leader.”
What is Ag Moves? Through Ag Moves, FFA members, professional educators and collegiate interns deliver the 10-lesson curriculum that covers agriculture fundamentals in local schools. The Missouri Farmers Care Foundation, which hosts Ag Moves, supplies curriculum, materials, and trained educators at no cost to schools. More information can be found at www.agmoves.com.
Ag Moves 2025 By The Numbers. Ag Moves engaged 13,682 elementary students in 2025, reaching one in six Missouri third graders. Over 950 FFA partner educators played a vital role in sharing Ag Moves with 219 schools.
#Agri-Ready Designated Lafayette County. Agriculture, including food, feed and forestry, contributes $237.7 million in value-added products, $696.2 million in output, over 4,000 jobs, and adds $303.8 million to household incomes in Lafayette County according to the 2021 Missouri Economic Contribution of Agriculture and Forestry Study.
What is Agri-Ready Designation? Lafayette County has been recognized as one of 82 Agri-Ready Designated Counties by Missouri Farmers Care, a voluntary program, which recognizes counties actively supporting the health and vitality of agriculture.