{"id":140028,"date":"2024-10-12T21:04:30","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T02:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/?p=140028"},"modified":"2024-10-12T21:04:30","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T02:04:30","slug":"sleepy-eye-ffa-dairy-and-soils-teams-takes-first-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/sleepy-eye-ffa-dairy-and-soils-teams-takes-first-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Eye FFA Dairy and Soils Teams Takes First Place"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Sleepy Eye FFA Dairy Team took 1st at their Region contest in Pipestone. The team included: l to r Dustin Portner, Lucia Martinez Paredes, Charlie Hoffmann, Rachel Portner (1st place Individual), Jared Portner, and Isaac Christensen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Sleepy Eye FFA Soils Team placed first at the Region VI Contest in Sherburn. Pictured l to r \u2013 front: Wyatt Feucht (1st place Individual), Oliver Trebesch, Ethan Feucht, Carson Sellner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Sleepy Eye FFA members competed in their first Region VI Contests on October 3 and 10, 2024.\u00a0 The Dairy Team and Soils Teams placed 1st<\/sup>\u00a0in their contest! The Poultry and Horse Teams both took 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0and the Forestry Team received 4th<\/sup>\u00a0place.<\/p>\n

For the Dairy Contest, Rachel Portner, Jared Portner, Dustin Portner, Lucia Martinez Paredes, Charlie Hoffmann, Isaac Christensen evaluated several classes of Holstein dairy cows and heifers on October 3rd<\/sup>\u00a0in Pipestone.<\/p>\n

They also answered questions on one class of cows and recited reasons on the other class of cows. They judged a pedigree class where they judged cows based on their records and a sire selection class where they chose the best bull for their cow as well. The final portion of the contest is a team activity with dairy trivia and management questions.<\/p>\n

The Dairy team placed 1st<\/sup>\u00a0out of 7 teams and Rachel Portner was the highest scorer in the contest and earned 1st<\/sup>\u00a0place individual.<\/p>\n

On October 10th<\/sup>, FFA members competed in four other Career Development Events (CDE\u2019S) at Sherburn in the Region VI Fall CDE competition.<\/p>\n

In the soils contest, members judge different soil profiles, and identify soil characteristics, including texture, depths, and erosion potential.<\/p>\n

The soils team placed 1st<\/sup>\u00a0in the competition out of 13 teams. Team members included:\u00a0Wyatt Feucht (1st<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall), Oliver Trebesch (2nd<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall), Ethan Feucht, and Carson Sellner.<\/p>\n

The poultry team was the 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0Place team out of 14 schools.\u00a0 The team consisted of\u00a0Mateo Hornsby (1st place Individual), Kayden Klein (7th place Ind.), Carsten Nienhaus, Ava Sellner, and Makayla Strong.<\/p>\n

The Poultry CDE involves judging chicken and turkey carcasses, eggs, processed poultry, chicken parts identification, and taking a poultry knowledge test.<\/p>\n

The horse team took also took 2nd<\/sup>\u00a0place in the competition out of 13 teams. Team members included:\u00a0Leah Kucera\u00a0(3rd<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall), Millie Lax (4th<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall),\u00a0Kenedi Wersal\u00a0(5th<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall), Paola Gonzalez, and Breanna Lopez.<\/p>\n

For the Horse CDE, members judge halter classes, performance classes (western pleasure, hunt seat, English pleasure, western riding, western horsemanship, and trail), and also identify breeds, colors, markings, and tack.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0The forestry team placed 4th<\/sup>\u00a0in the Region VI Contest out of 6 teams.\u00a0The team members included:\u00a0Daniel Armstrong\u00a0(6th<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall),\u00a0Clark Lazatin\u00a0(12th<\/sup>\u00a0place Individual Overall), Kaylie Fulmer, and Ella Arkins.<\/p>\n

For the forestry contest, members identify trees, wood, and tools used in the forestry industry; measure trees; take a forestry exam; solve business management problems; and use a compass and pacing to figure out the bearing and distance.<\/p>\n

All of the teams also\u00a0advanced to State Competition which will be held in the Twin Cities in April.<\/p>\n

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The Sleepy Eye FFA members competed in their first Region VI Contests on October 3 and 10, 2024.\u00a0 The Dairy Team and Soils Teams placed 1st\u00a0in their contest! The Poultry and Horse Teams both took 2nd\u00a0and the Forestry Team received 4th\u00a0place. For the Dairy Contest, Rachel Portner, Jared Portner, Dustin Portner, Lucia Martinez Paredes, Charlie …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-school-bag"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":true,"date":"2029-10-13 12:31:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140031,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140028\/revisions\/140031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sleepyeyeonline.com\/goodnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}