Hartington-Newcastle FFA Chapter fares well at State FFA convention

LINCOLN — The State FFA convention was held in Lincoln this past week. Chapters from all over the state were represented, and participated in seminars and contests for three days.

The following are the results of the HNS participants.

FFA State Convention Results State Degree Recipients Jade Ford, Maverick Heine, Booker Hochstein, Quinn Hochstein, Jackson Klug, Kora Kneifl, Kaley Lammers, Wesley Pinkelman, Graham Potts, Breah Steffen, Ava Stewart and Katelyn Wubben State Choir Participants Kyptin Collier, Jayden Lordemann, Kyson Lammers Proficiency Finalist

Swine Production

• Ava Stewart: 1st Individual (Will be sent on to Nationals in the Fall) Leadership Development Events (LDEs)

• Jr Public Speaking Scout Heimes: Bronze Metal Speech Topic: The Holstein Life Process at Heimes Brother Farms

• Sr Public Speaking Ava Stewart: Silver Metal Speech Topic: Rolling Risks: The Effect of Trailer Contamination on Disease Outbreak in the US Swine Industry Career Development Events (CDEs)

• Agriscience (Team placed 54th, Red Ribbon) Ashlynn Dailey; 119th Individual (Blue Ribbon) Colter Feilmeier, Dylan Heikes, Logan Kneifl

• Agronomy (Team Placed 27th, White Ribbon) Graham Potts; 48th Individual (Blue Ribbon) Gabriel Reyes; 89th Individual

(Red Ribbon) Jason Heimes, William Feilmeier • Floriculture (Team Placed 59th) Kora Kneifl, Katelyn Wubben, Kaley Lammers, Elena Reyes Livestock Management (Team 12th; Blue Ribbon)

• Breah Steffen, Ava Stewart, Karissa Bruning, Adeline Pinkelman, Gus Lammers, Calley Stewart

• Welding (Team 25th; White Ribbon) • Ty Opfer; 1st individual (Arc Weld-ing) Purple

• Cris Kneifl (OA Welding)

• Josiah Christensen (Tig Welding)

• Colton Cavanaugh (Mig Welding)