I am always excited to see Neosho Kids make it and shine on a big stage. Well here are four students who not only shined and made all of us proud but they are an elite group, who can call themselves Champions. I am so proud of them and I applaud their efforts! The only question I will ask is this - just like the Debate Squad who won Nationals last school year - where is the parade - the school assembly - and the proclamation from the Mayor for this group of kids???? Had the football or basketball team won State - there would be a huge celebration in Neosho - these kids deserve no less!!!
To Neosho's FFA Agronomy Team, Congratulations and thank you for representing Neosho with such class!!!!
Below is the Newspaper Article:
FFA AGRONOMY COMPETITION
Team places first BY TODD G. HIGDON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER (From the Neosho Daily News)
The Neosho High School FFA agronomy team has won nationals at the FFA National Agronomy CDE (Career Development Event) in Indianapolis, Ind.
The four-member team was made up of Stephanie Hancock, junior; Whitney Gray, junior; Jared Sage, senior; and Jaycob Wilkins, senior.
“Last Wednesday is when they did the team problem and actually the team problem is what won the contest for them,” said Mike Aldrich, FFA advisor. “That is where they were given a scenario and this year on the team problem, they had to plant sweet corn on 575 acres in New Jersey. They are like the consultant team and they had to tell the farmer what to do. They had to present that.
They did awesome on it.”
Aldrich said this was the second time the agronomy team from Neosho High School’s FFA department has won at nationals. The first time was back in 2007.
Agronomy deals with the study of crops and the soils in which they grow. At one time, agronomy was called crop science Agronomists study ways to make soils more productive. They classify soils and test them to determine whether they contain substances vital to plant growth. The nutritional substances include compounds of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Agronomists also examine the development of the roots and their relation to the soil.
“I am really excited,” said Hancock, about winning nationals.
Echoing her remarks was Whitney Gray.
“I am extremely proud,” she said. “I never imagined getting this far.”
Charles Gray, Whitney’s father, attended the event.
“It was nerve-racking,” he said.
“When they was going through it, you are sitting there, they are calling off all of these teams and when they get to the last two, your school had not been called off, you are sitting there, your knees get weak, you are trying to figure out where you are going to end up when they call the other school.”
Whitney’s older sister and current FFA chapter president Alisha Gray expressed her thoughts about the team.
Team places first BY TODD G. HIGDON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER (From the Neosho Daily News)
The Neosho High School FFA agronomy team has won nationals at the FFA National Agronomy CDE (Career Development Event) in Indianapolis, Ind.
The four-member team was made up of Stephanie Hancock, junior; Whitney Gray, junior; Jared Sage, senior; and Jaycob Wilkins, senior.
“Last Wednesday is when they did the team problem and actually the team problem is what won the contest for them,” said Mike Aldrich, FFA advisor. “That is where they were given a scenario and this year on the team problem, they had to plant sweet corn on 575 acres in New Jersey. They are like the consultant team and they had to tell the farmer what to do. They had to present that.
They did awesome on it.”
Aldrich said this was the second time the agronomy team from Neosho High School’s FFA department has won at nationals. The first time was back in 2007.
Agronomy deals with the study of crops and the soils in which they grow. At one time, agronomy was called crop science Agronomists study ways to make soils more productive. They classify soils and test them to determine whether they contain substances vital to plant growth. The nutritional substances include compounds of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Agronomists also examine the development of the roots and their relation to the soil.
“I am really excited,” said Hancock, about winning nationals.
Echoing her remarks was Whitney Gray.
“I am extremely proud,” she said. “I never imagined getting this far.”
Charles Gray, Whitney’s father, attended the event.
“It was nerve-racking,” he said.
“When they was going through it, you are sitting there, they are calling off all of these teams and when they get to the last two, your school had not been called off, you are sitting there, your knees get weak, you are trying to figure out where you are going to end up when they call the other school.”
Whitney’s older sister and current FFA chapter president Alisha Gray expressed her thoughts about the team.
“I am happy that they did this,” she said.
Not only did the team win nationals, but team members also received some high scores.
Jared Sage was third high individual in the nation, Jaycob Wilkins was fourth high, Whitney Gray was 11th and Stephanie Hancock was 13th.
“I am super proud,” Aldrich said. “This is the highest that we go.”
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