What Can I do in the FFA?

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2. What Can I do in the FFA? Career Development Events

3. Prepared Public Speaking • You have 2 months to prepare a speech • Deliver a speech • Answer Questions about your topic

4. Extemporaneous Public Speaking • Public Speaking • Given a topic and you have 20 minutes to create a 4 minute speech

5. Greenhand Creed Speaking • Only Greenhands can attend • Build self confidence

6. Agricultural Mechanics • 1. Welding • 2. Small Engines • 3. Electricity • 4. Carpentry • 5. Surveying

7. Tool Identification What are these tools? 2 1

8. Tool Identification What are these tools? 3 4

9. Dairy Animal Evaluation • Pick the best dairy cow in Lincoln in March!

10. Judge these Dairy Cows!

11. Now That’s A Dairy Cow!

12. Agricultural Sales • Customer Relations • Telephone Skills • Marketing Skills • Product Display • Sales Presentation

13. Soils • Soil Profile • Soil Textures • Soil Structures • Drainage indication • Soil Management • Slope Determination

14. Grains • 34 Crop Seed Identification • 60 Weed Slide Identification • Roughage Evaluation - Hay and Silage • Grain Evaluation - Corn, Soybeans, Oats, Wheat

15. Crop Judging 2 Name the crops that are pictured. 1 3 4

16. Weed Identification 1 Identify these 4 weeds. 3 2

17. Dairy Foods • Taste ID 14 cheeses • Taste ID 10 milks • Taste ID Real vs Artificial products • Dairy Foods Exam

18. Dairy Products Judging 1 2 3

19. Ag Business Management • Management Knowledge about…… • Insurance • Finance / Banking • Marketing • Cost Analysis

20. Ag Business Management • Answer the questions on your paper now!

21. Floriculture • Plant material ID • Flower Evaluation • Arranging Experience

22. Flower Identification 2 1 Identify these 4 flowers. 3 4

23. Horse Evaluation • Riding Classes • Halter Classes

24. Horse Judging 1 3 2

25. Livestock Evaluation • Evaluation of • Cattle • Sheep • Swine • Oral Reasons • Question classes

26. Livestock Judging 1 3 Please rank these pigs based upon their confirmation (straight back/strong legs), health, muscle, and which one you think is the best. 4 2

27. Livestock Judging 1 Please rank these cattle based upon their confirmation (straight back/strong legs), health, and which one you think is the best. 2 3 4

28. Livestock Judging 1 3 Please rank these sheep based upon their confirmation (straight back/strong legs), health, muscle, and which one you think is the best. 4 2

29. Meat Evaluation • Wholesale cuts • Retail cuts • Pork - Lamb – Beef Carcass

30. Meat Judging 1 3 2

31. Parliamentary Procedure • Organize a Meeting • Uphold the “rule” of the Majority. • Uphold the “rights” of the minority • Serve as Chairperson • Serve as Secretary • Serve as a floor member

32. Poultry • Poultry cuts • Egg evaluation

33. Mrs. Waters Top Picks….