South Platte FFA News:
Cameron Miller, Agricultural Instructor/FFA Advisor
The South Platte FFA Chapter has been very active while traveling to District FFA Events in the last two months. In mid January five of our members loaded up and competed at the district event at Scottsbluff in the Livestock Management Contest where our team placed 2nd, earning a spot for the state competition in Lincoln. The Livestock Management Contestants included: Jennifer Sauers, Pam Radke, Cameron Christensen, Jason Dolezal, and Mikel Dowdy. Then on February 17th four members: Cameron Christensen, J.C. Lanckriet, James McClung, and Kyle Krause competed in the District Farm/Ranch Management Contest in Gordon, NE, where as a team we earned 4th place, with James McClung being our highest team scorer.
Currently we have been preparing for our next district competition in Kimball where we will have seven agronomy contestants and six meats evaluators. In the mean time we just returned from the non-district Eustis-Farnam’s contest on February 27th where a few of our students got in some good practice in both meats and agronomy before the district competition in Kimball on March 2nd. In Eustis our agronomy team placed 2nd overall leaving us eager to continue our success at the upcoming district competition. Our expected teams for districts in Kimball will be as follows: Agronomy Team #1: James McClung, Pam Radke, Katie Krause, and Shelby Dickson Agronomy Team #2: Crystal McClung, John McClung, and Tim Hill. Our expected district competitors in Meats Evaluation will be J.C. Lanckriet, Terryl Peterman, Jennifer Sauers, Shannon Bogenhagen, Jason Dolezal, and Seth Waterman. As a chapter we are looking forward to the Nebraska State FFA Convention in April, and are anticipating another wonderful time in Lincoln.
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