Pierce FFA Takes on Competition at NortheastÂ
By Meredith Krienert
The Pierce FFA competed on Tuesday, February 24, at Northeast Community College, taking home many medals as a result of their many state qualifying performances at the district CDE (career development events) contest.
Boston Krueger, Clay White, Austin Kerber, and Cole DeBoer took home a gold medal, placing first in agriculture technology and mechanics.
“I thought we did really good; sent a lot of people to state. So I'm always happy with that. And then our group, I also feel did really good, both for my ag mech team and my agronomy team. Ag mech team did amazing. I actually held our ag mech team back a little bit,” Krueger comments.
Also, among those award winners were Brandon Thomsen, Jessa Kraft, Alexzander Weinrich, and Kyle Abler, who took home first place in forestry.
Placing second in environmental and natural resources were Emily Endorf, DeBoer, Evelyn Skrdla, and Eleanor Bauermeister.
Krueger, C. White, Dierck White, and Cayden Holan placed third in agronomy.
Kate Anderson, Lillian Stern, Grace Behmer, and Jessica Suckstorf also placed third in veterinary science.
Kaelyn Halsey, Endorf, Bauermeister, and Payton Montgomery also competed in floriculture and placed sixth.
The food science team, who consisted of Kinley Hilkemann, Bailee Thelen, Avery Brunckhorst, and Alyvia Marks competed in identifying aromas and taking a food science quiz.
Hilkemann, Thelen, Brunckhorst, and Marks also competed in the meats evaluation competition.
“We had a lot of teams qualify for state with CDEs yesterday. We had a lot of teams qualify with their LDE competition to livestock judging, we had a team qualify for state, so we're gonna have a lot of good teams going down to state this year. It'll be fun to fill a bus and go down,” D. White said.
Make sure to wish the state qualifiers good luck in Lincoln!
