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National Land Judging Competition, 2005, State Winners on their Way to National!


Butner Public Schools' 4-H Senior Land Judging team earned first place honors at the State land judging competition held in Stillwater, Oklahoma on Saturday April 23, 2005.
Butner seniors Dillon Simpson and Nathan Williams along with sophomore Roselynn Simpson represented Butner against approximately 50 other contestants. Besides winning first as a team, Roselynn Simpson scored high individual in senior 4-H division, Dillon Simpson place third highest individual, and Nathan Williams placed fourth highest individual.


The Hitchcock-Tulare FFA soils team placed 1st out of 14 teams at the Central Area Land Judging competition in South Dakota. The team members and there placings from left to right are: Andrew Roeber 5th, Tim Masat 6th, Jessica Bottum 7th, and Angie Bushong 4th. They will represent South Dakota at the National Land Judging contest in Oklahoma City on May 3rd through the 5th.


Pictured left to right- Danielle Inman, Joey Walker, Ellissa Allan, Justen Pace, and Sarah Miner.
Charlotte Sr. FFA Chapter Land Judging Team From Punta Gorda, Fl.
Thank you to all for the assistance after hurricane Charley and see you at the national land judging contest.

The Tennessee State 4H Land Judging Champions for the 2004-2005 school year are from Wilson County. From left to right: Dustin Rottero, Jarred Cavanaugh, Ben Northern, Jared Givens, and not pictured Ben Kelly. With a score of 1078 out of a possible 2000 points they placed 1st in the state back in November.

Crook County FFA and Oregon State Soils Team! (Left to right) Jeff Papke, Joe Condron, Koli Cooper, Willie Colson, Cole Griffin

4-H Team members: Becky Clayton, Kelly Dar, Sarah Banghart, Hollie Sharp
FFA Team members: Simon Baumgartner, Chad Yotter, Eric Kaiser, Jeff Anglemyer
The final placings in the Indiana State Soils Contest were: Wawasee 4-H Soils Team - 1st
Wawasee FFA Soils Team - 2nd Place


Robeson, NC - The Lumberton FFA Chapter placed first in the 51st Annual North Carolina FFA Association Land Judging Career Development Event on April 1-2, 2005, in Surry County, North
Carolina. Team members include Kyle Keating, Mitch Miller, Jessica Oliver and Zach Pittman. Their FFA Advisors are James Roberts and Juan Martinez.
In early April 1955, 188 FFA members met on a parcel of land in Harnett County near Dunn, North Carolina where Interstate 95 was being constructed. It was on this site that the first "Soil Appreciation and Soil Judging School" was held. Fifty-one years later, hundreds of FFA members from across the state traveled to Surry County to participate in the year's 51st Annual North Carolina FFA Land Judging Career Development Event.
This event encourages students to analyze land characteristics such as soil type, erosion and drainage to determine the best possible use. Knowledge about soils can be organized and applied in managing farms, fields, and woodlands, developing communities as well as engineering work. Students are able to comprehend why soils respond differently to management practices and how soil properties affect crop growth and urban uses.
The top five teams in the state event are eligible to compete in the National Land, Pasture and Range Judging Event in Oklahoma this May. The top three teams and high scoring individual will be recognized during the 77th North Carolina FFA State Convention in Raleigh on June 7-9, 2005.
This event is one of 37 different career development events offered to North Carolina FFA members on the state level. Progress Energy, Duke Power Company and the Soil Science Society of North Carolina sponsor this state event.
The North Carolina FFA is a youth organization of 14,833 student members preparing for leadership and careers in the science, business and technology of agriculture with 218 local chapters across the state. FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.


Central Lafourche High School won fourth-place honors at the 43rd Annual FFA State Soil Judging Career Development Event held at Louisiana State University-Alexandria recently. Over 200 FFA members on 58 FFA teams from throughout the state participated in the day-long event. FFA members of each team were asked to describe various soil properties in the field and record accompanying natural resource conservation practices on four different sites near Alexandria, Louisiana. The event was sponsored by the Louisiana Association of FFA, Louisiana Association of Conservation Districts, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), Soil and Water Conservation Society and Louisiana’s 44 Soil and Water Conservation Districts. (L-R) Danielle Beard, State FFA Area III Vice President;
Chris Head, State FFA Sentinel;
Doug Triche, FFA Advisor;
Kyle Guidroz; Tarin Labat; Blair Landry; Melanie Smith;
Charles Guillory, NRCS; Gordon Newton, NRCS; Lindsay Lutes, State FFA Parliamentarian and Tyler Landry, State FFA President. FFA’s mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of young people by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

The Barbour County 4-H Soils Judging team placed second in the West Virginia State 4-H soils judging contest which qualifies them to represent West Virginia in the 2005 National Land Pasture and Range Judging contest in Oklahoma City. Left to right are Nick Renzelli
Maria Renzelli
Katie Payne, and
Bill Payne.

This is the first team that Roger Nestor has taken to the national event that has had two brother and sister pairs. This is the sixth year in a row that Barbour County, West Virginia has managed to make it to Oklahoma. Coach Roger Nestor says he has been extremely blessed to have coached the teams he has had in Barbour County, West Virginia and to have met the people he has met in Oklahoma.

The Hagerstown FFA Chapter Soils Judging Team placed 5th at the Indiana State FFA Soils Judging Contest in Daviess County on October 23rd.

This qualified them for National Competition.

Team members are:
Kristi Kirtley,
Anna Fagan,
Josh Foulke
and
Cody Fink.

Atlee FFA placed 1st in the Virginia Land Judging Contest

This is the second year in a row that Atlee has won the state

Team members are L-R
Matt Winter 2nd
Eric Brugger 1st
Chris Britt 4th
Eric Anas 7th
Coach David Balderson
Also pictured: State Officers
Christy Huffman
Allen Heishman

North Central FFA has again placed 1st in the Louisiana State Land Judging competition,

this is their 3rd year in a row that they have won this award, it is also their 4th time winning the award in the last 5 years. The winning team pictured from left to right
Erica Morgan
Lorenzo Evans
Lauren Beard
Hals Beard-Advisor
and Ryan Deville-State High Scorer
presenting the award was Danielle Beard-Area III State Vice President.
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