Tag Archives: California
Amanda Osmundson Named 2023 National Proficiency Winner in Beef Production – Placement
Amanda Osmundson of the Oakdale FFA Chapter in California works on her family’s beef operation, helping to manage 300 heard of registered Beefmaster, commercial, and E6 cattle. Her focus is a seed stock operation to sell registered bulls and donor … Continue reading
Danae Westra of California Named American Star in Agricultural Placement Finalist
Danae Westra of the Visalia-Central Valley Christian FFA in central California has a supervised agricultural experience (SAE) focused on researching cattle. She has measured growth, protein levels, milk production rates and more in several long-term experiments through the years, starting … Continue reading
California FFA Member, Samuel Jimenez, Honored as Specialty Animal Production Proficiency Award Recipient
Samuel Jimenez of the Madera FFA Chapter in California works at Mad Town Koi, a fishery that specializes in raising butterfly, utsuri, tancho, Showa, and kohaku koi. The fishery is vertically integrated, handling the fish during their entire growth cycle, … Continue reading
Brennan Elszy of California Named Agriscience Research- Plant Systems Proficiency Recipient
Brennan Elszy of the Hanford FFA Chapter in California has conducted two research projects in plant and soil sciences. His first project tested the effectiveness of Chloropicrin soil fumigation on managing nematode populations in orchard soils that were previously planted … Continue reading
Sporrowk wins national proficiency award
Jordan Sparrowk of the Lodi No. 1 FFA Chapter in Lodi, California discovered early on that he wanted to be involved in his father’s beef cattle operation. His duties started small; at first he was merely asked to carry branding … Continue reading
Valencia wins national proficiency award
Michael Valencia of the Madera FFA Chapter in Madera, California grew up around the apiary industry and was the proud owner of 15 hives before he was a freshman in high school. Today, he has 115 hives and offers pollination … Continue reading
Allison wins national proficiency
Cayci Allison of the Lemoore FFA chapter in Lemoore, California, has dreamt of becoming a veterinarian since she was a child and today, she has the opportunity to work at a local animal clinic. As a freshman, her job was … Continue reading
Parsons Named American Star in Agricultural Placement
Kurt Parsons will never forget what his teacher told him on the first day of his agriculture science class at Porterville High School in California. “He told me that my high school career could be the greatest adventure in my … Continue reading
Jefferson wins National Creed Speaking CDE
Each year, thousands of Greenhand FFA members from across the country get their first taste of Career Development Events through the FFA Creed. Leandre Jefferson from the Tulare, California FFA Chapter was this year’s national winner. In this interview, he … Continue reading
Agriscience Research – Animal Systems
Agriscience Research- Animal Systems Madison Albiana of the Elk Grove FFA Chapter in California has been researching and comparing the average daily gains crossbred and purebred hogs. Working with professors at California State University, she discovered that breed did not … Continue reading