Reagan Vehige is a senior in the Wright City FFA at Wright City High School. Reagan is the daughter of Chuck and Eileen Vehige of Wright City, Missouri and her FFA Advisors are Kelsey Kemry and Dustin Elledge. Reagan is extremely involved in FFA and is currently serving as the Wright City FFA Vice President. 

The Area Star Farmer is awarded to the FFA member that demonstrates the top agricultural production in their supervised agricultural experience project. The Area V FFA consists of over 18 school districts. The member must demonstrate outstanding achievement, active FFA participation and an exemplary scholastic record. On Thursday, Feb. 13, Reagan Vehige was informed that she was selected as the Area V Star Farmer.

She is the first Area Star Farmer from Wright City High School since Tim Dunakey in 1983, according to previous agriculture teacher and FFA Advisor David Cook. After talking with Cook about the Wright City FFA Chapter’s success, he said “Well this phone call really made this old man smile. Congratulations!”

Reagan earned this prestigious award not only by being extremely involved in FFA but also with her supervised agricultural experience project. Reagan is a successful entrepreneur who owns a show stock business, Vehige Club Lambs, and she raises and shows cattle. 

Vehige Club Lambs began six years ago with buying 5 bred ewes. Since Vehige Club Lambs began, Reagan has continued to grow her herd in quality and quantity. Reagan's overall goals for her company are to produce high quality show lambs for both herself and to sell to customers. Some responsibilities with this business include feeding and caring for her sheep, maintaining barn cleanliness, staying up to date with vaccinations, helping the ewes and lambs during lambing season, advertising and customer service. The quality of her herd is evidenced by Reagan winning Grand and Reserve Champion at the Warren County Fair the past several years. She not only shows her lambs at the county fair but also at the district, state and national levels. Within these higher level shows, Reagan's high quality genetics have proven to earn top spots even nationally. 

Along with Vehige Club Lambs, Reagan has shown cattle for eleven years. Owning cattle comes with a lot of responsibility such as feeding and watering, staying up to date with deworming and vaccinations, keeping the stalls clean, breaking and washing calves and more. In the last two years, Reagan has grown tremendously in her knowledge and quality of show cattle. She has done extremely well with her show cattle at both the Warren County Fair and Missouri State Fair. 

Moving forward with the Area Star Farmer award, Reagan is now competing for Missouri Star Farmer. They select the Missouri Star Farmer out of the winners from all 16 FFA Areas in the State of Missouri. Reagan’s application and SAE financials will be sent to the state committee for judging, along with an interview that Reagan will do this upcoming April. The Wright City FFA Chapter is very proud of Reagan for her accomplishment and wishes her luck this upcoming April.