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Elmwood FFA plans for District evaluation

The start of Feb­ru­ary has kept the Elm­wood FFA busy as it pre­pared for the Dis­trict 1 FFA Eval­u­a­tion. This event was held at Penta County Career Cen­ter on Feb. 7. Dur­ing this event three of the chapter’s offi­cer posi­tions had the book asso­ci­ated with their office, eval­u­ated for qual­ity. Sec­re­tary Chelsie Schmitz and assistant […]

Shelby FFA goes out with their boots on

On the morn­ing Jan. 14, Shelby FFA mem­bers gath­ered in the park­ing lot of Shelby High School and loaded onto a bus. At 6:30 a.m. the bus left Shelby and departed for Den­ver. After a few hours on the road the stu­dents arrived at Indi­anapo­lis Speed­way. FFA mem­bers and chap­er­ones were able to tour the museum […]

New London FFA speaks on agricultural topics

The New Lon­don FFA had four mem­bers com­pete in the Sub Dis­trict Pub­lic Speak­ing Career Devel­op­ment Event on Wednes­day, Feb. 8, at Ply­mouth High School. Kim­berly Miller recited the FFA Creed. She placed third in her area and has earned the oppor­tu­nity to com­pete at the Dis­trict Level on Feb. 29. Shelbi Liss com­peted in […]

Youth pork leadership institute announced

Pork enthu­si­asts from around Ohio will have a chance to learn about all aspects of the pork indus­try at the 2012 Youth Pork Lead­er­ship Insti­tute, a three-day sem­i­nar to be held in Colum­bus in June. Young men and women will be selected to par­tic­i­pate in the event, which is spon­sored by the Ohio Pork Pro­duc­ers Council, […]

Mohawk FFA holds picnic

The mem­bers of the Mohawk FFA met for the annual FFA fam­ily pic­nic on Wednes­day, Sept. 7. The pic­nic was held at the Price res­i­dence this year. The offi­cer team started off the evening with open­ing cer­e­monies fol­lowed by the meal. Melissa Daniel pre­pared the meat for the pic­nic and the rest of the FFA chapter […]

Margaretta FFA news

The Mar­garetta FFA Chap­ter recently attended Colt­Con­fer­ence, Colum­bus, on Wednes­day, Sept. 7. Seven of the nine chap­ter offi­cers took the trip to Colum­bus. At Colt, the offi­cers learned the impor­tance of lead­er­ship and ded­i­ca­tion. Chap­ter offi­cers from all over Ohio travel to attend this con­fer­ence. All mem­bers got to min­gle with the new peo­ple they […]

Elmwood competes in soils

On Sept. 29 the Elm­wood FFA par­tic­i­pated in the dis­trict soils and agron­omy con­tests, which were held in Ottawa County. When the final tab­u­la­tions were cal­cu­lated, Elm­wood came away with some impres­sive results. The rural soils team, which con­sisted of Mor­gan Huff, Jes­sica McKen­zie, Trey Marsh, Justin Barndt, Trey Wil­helm, Brooke Davies, Amanda Jones, and […]

Arlington FFA competes at District 4 Rural and Urban Soil Judging Contest

On Sept. 28, the Arling­ton FFA chap­ter sent seven stu­dents to the Dis­trict Rural and Urban Soil Judg­ing Com­pe­ti­tion in Fre­mont. Team mem­bers of the Rural team con­sisted of seniors Thayne Recker and Nick Price; junior Josh Solis; and fresh­man Danika Baker. As a rural team these young indi­vid­u­als did very well plac­ing eighth out […]

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