FFA Basics
What are the official FFA colors?
National Blue and Corn Gold
What is the original source of of food/clothing/materials?
Farms/Natural Resources
In what year did LC charter an FFA chapter?
1976 (started in 1975)
What does SAE, CDE, and LDE stand for?
Supervised Agricultural Experience
Career Development Event
Leadership Development Event
Where is Washington's State Convention held? Where is the national convention held?
WSU in Pullman
Indianapolis, Indianna
A successful food chain is a balance of ____ & _____.
efficiency and resiliency
What was significant about 1969 in FFA history?
Allowed women to join
Who wrote the FFA Creed and in what year?
E.M. Tiffany wrote it in 1928 but it was adopted in 1930
Describe official dress of an FFA member
FFA jacket, scarf/tie, white collared shirt, black pants or knee length skirt and tights, black closed toed shoes, black socks
There are multiple factors that can affect our food chain. Name 3.
social, political, economic, environmental, demographic
When and where was FFA established?
Kansas City, MO in 1928
List 5 opportunities that LC FFA offers that you could get involved in
Answers will vary
The FFA emblem has 6 different symbols within it. Name 4 and what they represent.
Cross section of corn: unity
Eagle: freedom
Rising sun: progress and new day in ag
Owl: wisdom
Plow: labor and tillage of soil
Words: learning and leadership
Agriculture is complex because it involves a lot of things. Name 4 things that it involves.
crops and livestock
climate change
consumer buying preferences
food insecurity
international policy
technological innovations
What was the name of the Act that was passed to allow vocational ag classes into high schools? What year did it pass?
Smith-Hughes Act in 1917
Name 2 skills that Paetyn learned through her Agritourism Pumpkin Patch SAE
People skills and public speaking
What is the FFA motto?
Learning to do
Doing to learn
Earning to live
Living to serve
Name the 5 steps of the food chain
grow, process & package, transport, sell, buy
Tell me what happened in each of the following years:
1917
1928
1930
1965
1969
1917- Smith-Hughes Act
1928- FFA established
1930- Creed adopted
1965- NFA and FFA merged
1969- Women allowed to join
What are the requirements of an FFA member in terms of an SAE? Give 4 examples of SAE's that students could do.
Each member must do an SAE each year-
pumpkin patch, dairy farm, lawn care, raising animals, tractor restoration, media advertising