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Garden County FFA Competes at District 12 FFA Career Development Events at Gordon

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 GC FFA Results from District 12 Career Development Events Gordon Our Nebraska FFA District, Number 12, is very competitive with all 21 teams in the panhandle competing for spots at the Nebraska State FFA convention.  The district is allowed to send the top three scoring teams in food science teams, in agriculture mechanics the highest scoring 25% of teams, and the top three scoring teams in veterinarian science.  Our members studied and competed well but did not get a team qualified for the state contest. Agriculture Mechanics Each of the members takes a general agriculture mechanics test over the annual theme.  This year's theme was plant production systems. Then each member of the team completes a practicum in an individual area. Cable Larsen competed in hydraulics, Zeke Christiansen competed in electricity, Gunner Roberson received a white ribbon in small engines, and Carter Dorman competed in machinery and equipment. Farm and Ranch Management Chris Clark and Branson Anderson c

2024 District 12 CDE @ Scottsbluff

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 Seventeen Garden County FFA Members participated in the Nebraska FFA District 12 Career Development Events in Scottsbluff. Welding Gunner Roberson placed fourth, receiving a white ribbon, in GTAW, TIG welding.  Zeke Christiansen placed fourth, also receiving a white ribbon, in SMAW, stick welding.  Carter Dormann placed seventh in GMAW, MIG welding, and Wilsie Lobner placed tenth in OFW, oxyacetylene welding.  The team placed sixth place just 3 point behind the fifth place team.  Only the top five teams qualify to compete at the state competition in Lincoln in April. Agriculture Sales Jase Roberson, Carver Corfield, who received a red ribbon, Logan Levick, and Karma Peterson all participated in Agriculture Sales. Floriculture   Jana Spencer, Bre Yates, Ridglyn Stanczyk, and Natalie Coss participated in the floriculture contest. Livestock Management Kelbi Cooper, Kade Collins, Kyle Rote, Branson Anderson, and Carolina Schwab all participated in the Livestock Management and Poultry Eval

2023 District 12 Leadership Development Results

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  GC FFA competed in a very competitive Leadership Development Events on November 15, 2023, at Chadron State College. 2023-2024 Officer Team Front Row left to right: Reporter Karma Peterson, Parliamentarian Ridglyn Stanczyk, Historian Bre Yates, Secretary Logan Levick, Vice President Zeke Christiansen, President Gunner Roberson, Sentinel Carver Corfield, Treasurer  Kyle Rote Second Row : Kelbi Cooper, Natalie Coss, Javis Underwood, Morgan Ross, Kyan Kramer, Wyland Lobner, Wilsie Lobner, Kole Fornander, and Branson Anderson Third Row : Kade Collins, Chris Clark, Gavin Hunt, Oakley Larsen, Cable Larsen, Carter Dormann, and Jase Roberson Back Row : Jana Spencer and Carolina Schwab The Parliamentary Procedures Team earned a blue ribbon: Both Agriculture Teams earned a red ribbon.  One team demonstrated how to care for a sick calf, the other one how to propagate succulents. Logan Levick competed in Employment Skills and earned a blue ribbon. Branson Anderson competed in Natural Resource Sp

2023 Tiger Den Haunted House a Spooktacular Success

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 The Tiger Den Haunted house was hosted by the Garden County FFA members on the evening of October 29 and was a spooky time for all. The FFA members host the haunted house as a community service project to provide something fun for members of our community to do during the Tiger Den’s Trick or Treat Street event.  This year, the haunted house started with a path across the stage leading through a haunted graveyard and a haunted pumpkin patch.  Participants then entered the old girls' locker room, where they wandered through a maze of spooks, and then back across the stage.  Then on to the old boys' locker room through a dark tunnel where anything could jump out at you.  FFA members planned and decorated throughout the previous two weeks and looked forward to seeing how scary they could make the haunted house.  It was deemed a success, as many who entered screamed once or twice.

GC FFA October Happenings by Garden County FFA Reporter Karma Peterson

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Our annual fruit sales will be kicked off on Monday, October 23rd, with sales ending on November 16, 2023. We will have a variety of fruits, meats and cheeses, and popcorn. All the goodies you may need for a fall evening or a little something extra around Thanksgiving. Please reach out to one of our FFA members or order online https://forms.gle/YtYj4t3jjK5wfYXZ7. In other exciting news, Todd Filipi, the Resource Conservation Coordinator of North Platte Natural Resource District, received grant money to donate trees to all the counties, and Garden County was fortunate enough to be one of the counties where trees would be placed. Sarah Paisley, Assoc Extension Educator, asked the Garden County FFA Officers to help plant the trees at the Garden County fairgrounds in Lewellen. The Garden County Ag Society asked that the trees be planted in the tree row West of the 4-H cattle barn. A Hackberry tree, Honey Locust tree, Kentucky Coffeetree, and a Northern Catalpa tree were all successfully pl

2023 Ag Safety Day By Garden County FFA Reporter Karma Peterson

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       The 6th annual Ag safety day was held on October 18. The Garden County 3rd graders were the second group to attend this event on the Farm. This event is hosted by the Garden County Extension Office and the Garden County FFA Chapter. The FFA members were in charge of cooking the meal and presenting and creating sessions for the 3rd graders to go through.       Starting the day off, Extension Educator, Sarah Paisley, gave a presentation on sun safety, afterward the 3rd graders would go on to rotate through the following Ag topics: Animal Safety, with the help of a chicken, horse, dog, and feedlot calves; environmental safety, learning about wildlife and how to be prepared in the outdoors; and personal protective equipment where youth talked about chemical safety while bleaching their own Ag Safety Day t-shirt. To help them learn more about where the food we eat comes from, the lunch was full of Garden County ag products.      After lunch, the group headed off on a very cold farm t

Junior Livestock Evaluation Team Qualifies for State

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Seventeen members of the Garden County FFA Chapter competed in the Nebraska FFA District 12 Livestock Evaluation Career Development Event at the Box Butte Fairground in Hemingford, Nebraska. The junior team placed fifth place, qualifying for the Nebraska FFA State Event in April 2024 while receiving a white ribbon. Javis Underwood, Jase Roberson, Kole Fornander, Cable Larsen, Chris Clark, Kelbi Cooper, Natalie Coss, Jana Spencer, and Carolina Schwab competed in the junior division.  Kelbi earned a blue ribbon, Javis a red ribbon, and Kole earned a white ribbon. Wyland Lobner, Kyan Kramer, Carver Corfield, Breanna Yates, Oakley Larsen, Wilsie Lobner, Kyle Rote, and Branson Anderson competed in the senior division. Carver earned a blue ribbon and Wilsie earned a white ribbon.