During the month of April, the Radio Oklahoma Ag Network and Oklahoma Farm Report are spotlighting the 19 Area Stars of Oklahoma FFA, who are among the highest achievers in the organization.
The stars come from the five areas in four categories – Star in Ag Placement, Star in Agriscience, Star in Agribusiness, and Star in Agricultural Production.
This week, we spotlight the five area stars in Agribusiness in 2025.
One Star Finalist featured in the coming days from each of the categories will be named the State Star Award Winner during the 99th Oklahoma State FFA Convention, which will take place on May 6th and 7th in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
This week, our coverage of the 2025 Oklahoma FFA Star Award Finalists continues with Agribusiness competitor Hunter Brashears of the Sentinel FFA chapter representing the Southwest Area.
Breashears’s Star SAE project began when he hauled some hay for a gentleman in the community, and then grew to a full-scale hay-hauling business for small square bales. “Over the years, I decided to go into fall and autumn décor, then somewhere in between there, I had the bright idea to start a little hair sheep operation,” he shared. “It was great because I didn’t really have to do much because I had someone do a lot for me.”
Brashears described himself as a fourth-generation hay hauler, but the first to make a real business out of it. He relies on Facebook to market his services, but gets the most exposure out of word of mouth.
Brashears’s father and grandfather are staunch FFA supporters and former members, so he doesn’t believe he ever had the choice not to join the association, but has since discovered the plethora of opportunities that it provides to him. He regularly competes in speech contests and attends alumni camp.
He intends to attend OSU’s Ferguson College of Agricultural Biochemistry and Molecular Biology to pursue a pre-med route to eventually become a surgeon to repair the back and knee problems he sees all too often in his hay-hauling customers.
Hear KC’s full conversation with Hunter Brashears by clicking on the Listen Bar above.
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