Category Archives: FFA

This past week the Hay Springs FFA Chapter celebrated National FFA week. Throughout the week, students dressed up, played games, and learned about FFA. This is a great chance for the younger kids to learn about FFA and the opportunities it provides. On Tuesday, students dressed up in their Hawaiian gear, on Wednesday students wore their blue and gold clothes and the high schoolers drove anything but their normal vehicles to school and finally on Thursday students wore the color that corresponded with their favorite truck(Ford-Red, Chevy-Blue, Dodge-Black) and the elementary got to participate in an agricultural Kahoot. During the week the elementary held a coloring contest and the winners will be announced next week and earn a king size candy bar. This was a great week for all the students to learn more about agriculture and see the opportunities provided.

On January 10th, Hay Springs Public Schools took 17 members to a district competition at WNCC in Scottsbluff. Events our members competed in are: Floriculture, Ag Sales, Livestock Management (Poultry Evaluation separate test), and Welding.

Floriculture:
BLUE—Abby Nelson
WHITE—Alexa Tonjes

Poultry Evaluation:
RED—Jordyn Anderson
WHITE—Abbey Russell

Livestock Management Team—STATE QUALIFYING CHAMPION PURPLE:
Jordyn Anderson, Talan Smith, Abbey Russell, Ava McKillip, Josie Kelly
2nd PURPLE—Beef
RED—Dairy
2nd PURPLE—Horse
CHAMPION PURPLE—Sheep
RED—Poultry

The places won in the different divisions of the livestock management team (beef, dairy, horse, poultry, sheep) were won by the TEAM. They took the tests as a team. The poultry evaluation was a separate test they took as individuals in addition to the poultry part they did as a team.