Star Valley FFA member Bridger Wolfley, son of Mitch and Cheyanne Wolfley and a senior at Star Valley High School, has been selected as the Wyoming State FFA Reporter for the 2025-26 season. The new officer team of nine, comprised of youth leaders from throughout Wyoming, was announced on Saturday at the concluding session of the 2025 Wyoming State FFA Convention in Laramie.

As the seventh Star Valley FFA member to serve as a Wyoming State Officer since the founding of FFA in 1928, Bridger has big plans to share the power of agriculture and the power of youth leadership with the members of Wyoming FFA.

Raised in a family where agriculture is a way of life, Bridger brings significant FFA leadership and agricultural experience to the team. As a youth, he worked on his grandfather’s horse ranch and raised various animals each year to show at the county, state and national levels.

“I can’t thank my family enough for the connections and the opportunities they have given me that helped root me in this agriculture industry that I love,” Bridger shared in an interview with SVI Media on Monday. “It has set me on the path of this FFA and Agriculture journey that I love.”

Having served in various offices with the SV FFA throughout his four years of high school, and with two Supervised Agricultural Experiences (Rabbit Production and Poultry production), Bridger worked to “really change the chapter for the better,” teaching members about the rich culture of service and the importance of leadership and purpose in the agriculture industry.

As chapter president during this last year, Bridger led the SV FFA in a Poultry Production project where they restored the chapter chicken coop, raise a brood of donated hens, and donated the eggs from those hens to the Afton Food Bank. They worked to find ways to “connect with the community” and sponsored a fabric drive, using the fabric to construct no-sew blankets and supply those to several community organizations. “It was such a fun opportunity to put those blankets together and then see where they got to go.”

Bridger took 20 local FFA members to the Wyoming State FFA Leadership Camp last June, where three of the SV FFA members served on the camp officer team, markedly shaping this year’s local chapter as a whole. “We have been able to find a lot of ways to contribute to the community and show the members what agriculture can do for us.”

At this year’s state convention, Bridger presented a robust resume to the State Association’s Nomination Committee that demonstrated his “deep love for FFA” and a “passion” for his projects and the agriculture industry.  After writing an essay and completing two interviews with the Nomination Committee, Bridger emerged as the new State Reporter.

As the State FFA Reporter for Wyoming, Bridger hopes to lead by example. “Star Valley FFA is a chapter that can go unseen in our State Association,” compared to larger and more prominent chapters in the state. “To be able to represent our chapter on the State Officer Team says a lot about our chapter and the kind of people that are running it. I thank all my advisors who have led me over the last four years.”

Bridger is already developing plans to harness the power of traditional and social media platforms to inspire and highlight the leadership and accomplishments of Wyoming FFA. As the State Reporter, he hopes to create a student media team consisting of members from throughout the state to “photograph and write about and broadcast the state convention so they can learn the technical side of convention and what happens behind the scenes, just so they can see the amount of work that goes into putting on a state convention.” He plans to share the ways that FFA works to “give our members the best connections and opportunities to grow as people.”

During his term as a state officer, Bridger expects to either attend Laramie County Community College or enroll in online courses and study from home, completing general credits. After retiring as a state officer, he plans to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and then attend Utah State University to complete a degree in Agriculture Education, which will prepare him to serve students of agriculture as an FFA Advisor.

“I want the people of Star Valley to know that agriculture truly is the future,” Bridger shares with passion. “We might not always remember that, but it is always around us and it benefits our life in so many ways every single day. Our chapter may be small, but it sure is mighty, and it is producing the leaders of tomorrow. They are going to be stepping into those positions as agriculturalists and changing our world for the better. The valley’s support truly means the world to our chapter because it is allowing us to learn and grow as leaders and giving opportunities for us to serve our community. On behalf of the chapter, I just want to thank the community.”

To his beloved local chapter, Bridger wants to send a clear message. “Even though we come from a small chapter, we can have big dreams and God’s got amazing things in store for us, we just have to work for it.”