FFA Basics
These two official colors of the FFA give unity to the organization, representing the background of the American flag and fields of ripened corn
What are National Blue and Corn Gold?
Generating over $13 billion in annual cash receipts, this animal sector ranks as the number one agricultural commodity in Texas
What are cattle and calves?
The United States banned live cattle imports from Mexico to protect domestic herds from this devastating flesh-eating parasitic pest
What is the New World screwworm?
The Texas FFA Association is divided into this many Area Associations, each electing one student state officer
What is 12?
The most common way to introduce an item of business for consideration and action by the chapter by stating "I move..."
What is a main motion?
The 12-word FFA motto outlines the member journey: "Learning to Do, Doing to Learn, Earning to Live," and ending with this final phrase
What is "Living to Serve"?
On average, America’s farmers and ranchers receive only this many cents out of every retail dollar spent on food
What is 15 cents?
Following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the New Farmers of America (NFA) merged with the FFA in this year
What is 1965?
The Texas FFA Association headquarters is housed inside the Ford Leadership Center just two blocks east of the State Capitol in this city
What is Austin?
This method of voting is more accurate than a voice vote and is necessary if the motion requires a two thirds vote
What is a rising vote?
Featured on the emblem and positioned at the Vice President’s station, this symbol represents labor and tillage of the soil, the historic foundation of our country’s strength
What is the plow?
Texas is the nation’s top producer of this natural fiber crop, with the High Plains region alone producing 66% of the state’s total
What is cotton?
This agreement between a veterinarian and those seeking treatment is a cornerstone of the veterinary profession that interests groups are attempting to make virtual through legislation.
What is a VCPR?
Unique to the Lone Star State, junior FFA membership is open to students who are at least eight years old and enrolled in this elementary grade level
What is the third grade?
Outlined in the chapter bylaws, this term refers to the minimum number of members who must be present at a meeting to legally conduct business and vote
What is a quorum?
This degree of active membership is awarded by the chapter to first-year high school members who learn the creed, motto, salute, and history
What is the Greenhand FFA Degree?
Dispelling the myth of corporate farming dominance, this overwhelming percentage of Texas farms and ranches are operated by families or individuals
What is 89%?
Adopted at the 3rd National Convention in 1930, the iconic five-paragraph FFA Creed was written by this educator
Who is E.M. Tiffany?
This past state officer currently serves as the Executive Director of the Texas FFA Foundation, the financial arm of Texas Team Ag Ed.
Who is Aaron Alejandro?
If a parliamentary rule is violated during a meeting, a member may immediately interrupt a speaker without waiting for recognition or a second by rising to this
What is a point of order?
In the school-based agricultural education 3-component model, FFA connects with classroom instruction and this hands-on, work-based learning program abbreviated SAE
What is Supervised Agricultural Experience?
In agricultural marketing and commercial grain production, one standard U.S. bushel of corn weighs exactly this many pounds
What is 56 pounds?
The Future Farmers of America was established on November 20, 1928, at the Baltimore Hotel in this Midwestern city
What is Kansas City, Missouri?
In 1972, this San Augustine member became the first African-American president of the Texas FFA, later serving as National FFA Secretary and advisor to two U.S. presidents
Who is Fred McClure?
Requiring a two-thirds vote because it cuts off debate, this subsidiary motion secures an immediate vote on the pending question
What is the previous question?