Ashland FFA member Ethan Hilgedick recognized as national proficiency finalist in fruit production From corn, soybeans and wheat to cotton, rice and watermelon, yes, watermelon, Missouri’s diverse agricultural landscape is bountiful. And for Ashland FFA member Ethan Hilgedick, that diversity provided the perfect opportunity for him to build an award-winning supervised agricultural experience project READ MORE
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Beyond Cows and Plows
Zip up your blue corduroy and dive in to FFA! It’s the most wonderful time of the year — FFA jacket season! Though zipping up the blue corduroy is often a student’s first experience as an FFA member, it takes strategy at the chapter level to get them hooked on ag education and FFA. READ MORE
Calling All Innovators!
GROWMARK announces 2021 Essay Contest Theme The theme for the 2021 GROWMARK Essay Contest is: “If you could invent a new technology to improve agriculture, what would it be?” The contest is open to all high school FFA members in Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin. This is the 28thyear for the program, READ MORE
Rolling Over Roadblocks
Santa Fe FFA member Jacob Dierking wins State Star Farmer after tackling the challenges of a beginning farmer. Breaking into the industry as a young farmer comes with its challenges. Missouri FFA’s State Star Farmer is all too familiar with the hurdles and roadblocks that must be overcome. Jacob Dierking of the Santa Fe FFA READ MORE
Goals for Growth
Measurable goals help Hermann FFA’s Megan Schneider earn Missouri FFA State Star in Agribusiness. Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time oriented. While agricultural education students learn these components of SMART Goals in the classroom each year, Missouri FFA’s State Star in Agribusinesshas seen their effectiveness firsthand. Megan Schneiderof the Hermann FFA Chapterstarted her Supervised Agricultural READ MORE