Over 1800 members from across the State attended the Idaho State FFA Convention! Among those members, Malad had 25 students in attendance competing in career development events, leadership development events, industry tours, workshops, sessions, and a career fair. Members competed in Horse Judging, Livestock judging, Floral Design, Agriculture Education, Farm and Agribusiness, The FFA Creed, Scrapbook Contest, and The Spanish Creed. We also had two members represent our chapter as Delegates, and two participate in the Courtesy Corps.  

Horse Team: 8th Place 

Trevor Allen, Rowdy Bates, Jaxson Blaisdell and Lyndee Nimer Jaxson Blaisdell - 4th high individual in Horse Judging  

Farm and Agribusiness: 8th place 

Caleb Roe, Ryelur Jensen, Dayton Bird, and Mason Eliason  

FFA Creed: 4th Place -

Samantha Schrenk 

Spanish Creed: Top 10 - 

Valeria Oseguera 

Scrapbook:  2nd Place

BreElle Ferree and Sabrina Nipko  

Agriculture Education: Top 20

  BreElle Ferree  

Floral

Jaezie Jensen, Whitnee Waldron, Allee Moss, and Jenetta Jacaway 

Livestock 

Team 1:Trevor Allen, Jaxson Blaisdell, Rowdy Bates, Lyndee Nimer 

Team 2: Cecilee Hill, Joy Butler, Stacey Davis, and Val Oseguera  

Courtesy Corps 

Samantha Schrenk and Kambrea Higley  

Delegates

Laney Coatney and Cecilee Hill  

Idaho FFA State Officer Candidate

  Tatum Hess  

On Friday Morning, we had 6 FFA Members who received their State Degrees. To earn this Degree students must have been an active FFA member for at least two years, have been enrolled in 2 years of Ag classes, productively invested $1000, or worked 300 hours outside of class time in their supervised agricultural experience (fair projects, farms, jobs, research projects, etc). They must participate in Five FFA activities above the chapter level and complete 25 hours of community service. They also take an FFA knowledge and Parliamentary Procedure exam. 

Idaho FFA State Degree

 Mary Moss, Sabrina Nipko, Caleb Roe, Emma Lloyd, Jaezie Jensen, and Alexa Cram (not in attendance)  

District Star in Agribusiness, top 4 in the State

Caleb Roe 

While in Twin Falls students got to see firsthand dairy production and processing by visiting Bettencourt Dairy in Wendell Idaho. Bettencourt’s newest remodel with a rotary parlor and 17.67 acres of enclosed barns,  milking 12,000 cows and feeding 12 ½ million pounds of feed every day. A total of 27,000 animals, including the main calving barns with 200 calves born each day, and approximately 3 calves born every 15 minutes. 

Next students visited Chobani, America’s number one Greek yogurt is made with only natural ingredients. They turn milk into yogurt using an authentic straining process that has been around for generations. This special process makes their yogurt extra thick and gives it twice as much protein as regular, unstrained yogurts. 

Lastly, Students visited Glanbia Cheese. Glanbia is a science-led, innovative produce or dairy and non-dairy solution. Students saw the technologically advanced facility with robotic packaging and storage. They also got to taste some of their world-famous and highly awarded cheese curds.   

This year we have over 109 Malad FFA Members and students enrolled in an Ag class at Malad High School. We are seeing tremendous growth and success in our classes and in the chapter itself. If you would like to follow along with our events, contests, and classroom please follow us on Social media “Malad FFA Chapter”. If you are looking to get involved with our Alumni or support our program, reach out to the FFA Advisor and Ag teacher Lexie Evans ([email protected]).