Important Dates
1928
The year the FFA was founded.
Dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success through agricultural education.
What is the FFA Mission statement
Supervised Agricultural Experience
The definition of agriculture?
What is art and science of cultivating the soil, growing crops and raising livestock
A contest used to teach students agricultural principals in real life situations, also known as CDE's.
What is a Career Development Event?
The main part of the official dress
FFA Jacket
Current home to National FFA Convention
Indianapolis, Indiana
This SAE type involves keeping the money you make.
What is Entrepreneurship?
This branch/pathways of agriculture uses raising,caring for, breeding and harvesting products like fiber, hide, meat, milk and eggs from animals.
What is animal systems
A event to focus on creating situations for members to demonstrate their abilities in public speaking, decision making, communication and their knowledge of agriculture and the FFA organization.
What is Leadership Development Event
This line of the motto signifies that individuals learn most when they do things themselves.
What is "Doing to Learn”
The FFA jacket should be worn
zipped all the way up and with official dress
The rising sun.
What is progress?
This SAE type involves doing work for someone else.
What is Placement?
This branch/ pathway is planting,raising, caring for, and harvesting plants for food, fiber, and other products .
What is Plant Systems
What are the 3 circle model parts?
Classroom/Lab, SAE and FFA
The year that the FFA name changed
What is 1988?
The first line of the FFA Creed on the powerful statement that shows that actions speak louder than words.
What is I believe in the future of agriculture with a faith born not of words but of deeds
The first Line of the FFA Motto?
What is Learning to do
This SAE type involves planning and conducting a major agricultural experiment using the scientific process.
What pathway/ branch uses what is produced by the plant and animal systems with quality testing, nutrition, packaging and production.
Food Systems
A brief statement that provides FFA members with words to live by as they experience the organization:
What is the FFA Motto
The name of the FFA before 1988.
Future Farmers of America
Known as the "Father of the FFA"
Henry Groseclose
The symbol that represents labor and tillage of the soil.
What is the plow?
This SAE type is where you explore more of what interests you in the agricultural field or careers
What is Foundational?
This pathway/ branch studies our natural resources, how we use them, and how to manage better to conserve them
What is Natural resources
A basic statement that identify the traditions of the agricultural industry and affirm confidence in the bright future of the agricultural industry written by E. M Tiffany
What is the FFA Creed
1930
The FFA Creed was adopted.
This is the highest FFA degree you can get.
What is American
FFA was founded in
Kansas City, Missouri
This line of the motto shows the commitment that FFA has in developing students’ citizenship and interest in making others’ lives better.
What is "Living to serve"
This pathway/branch is the science behind changes it is a technology that utilizes living organisms or parts to develop or create different products and results.
What is Biotechnology system
NFA Stands for
New Farmers of America
This was the year FFA Discovery Degree was first available for Middle School Members.
2001
Who runs the FFA chapters and organization?
What is it is student-run with help of advisors
The name of FFA after 1988.
The last line of the FFA Motto is "Living to ________"
Serve
SAE projects must be related to _________.
Agriculture
What pathway/branch markets agricultural products from animal and plant systems involving the money those products will make.
What is Agribuisness
The last names of the two Georgia Congressmen that wrote the act establishing vocational classes in schools.
Who are Smith & Hughes?