The first day of judging is completed in the Northwest District Career Development Education judging being held in Maryville.
Area FFA chapters competed on Tuesday and today in 10 judging categories to advance to the State FFA judging competition later this month in Columbia. Judging on Tuesday included Agronomy, Dairy Foods, Entomology, Farm Management, Floriculture, Horse Judging, Livestock, Nursery Landscape, Poultry and Soils. Final rankings in regard to state qualifiers will be made available following today’s judging.
Princeton FFA teams took top honors in two categories – Horse Judging and Livestock – and had the first-, second-, third- and fifth-place individual judges in Horse Judging (Kylie Willett, Hunter Boxley, Logan Krohn and Soyer Wimer). In Livestock judging, Princeton had the second-, third- and sixth-place individual finishers (Vivian Allen, Maddie Enright and Shambree Hagan).
Princeton was also third in Poultry judging, with Clayton Sweetin as the number two judge. Gilman City was third in Soils judging with the number seven and number nine overall judges (Garrett Clark and Riley Still).
Trenton’s highest finish was in Farm Management, where the team was third. Emily Kasinger was the fifth-place overall judge. Trenton also competed in Dairy Foods, 25th; Floriculture, 18th; Livestock, 13th; and Poultry, 10th.
Grundy R-5 teams finished 16th in Dairy Foods, 16th in Floriculture, 18th in Horse Judging and 14th in Soils.
Other area teams and their finishes included:
Princeton – Nursery Landscape, 15th; and Soils, eighth.
Gilman City – Agronomy, seventh; Dairy Foods, sixth; Floriculture, 31st; and Livestock, 19th.
Jamesport – Entomology, sixth (Lucas Smith was fifth individually); Dairy Foods, 26th; Floriculture, seventh; and Nursery Landscape, seventh.
North Mercer, Agronomy, ninth (Natisha Price was fifth overall); Entomology, 19th; Dairy Foods, 19th; Horse Judging, 12th; Livestock, ninth; Poultry, seventh (Grey Porter was seventh overall); and Soils, 16th.
Determination of which teams are headed to state competition will be made once today’s judging is completed.
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