Total Ag Education Program
This component of the Ag Ed model includes hands-on agriculture experiences outside of class.
What is SAE?
The name of the organization changed in 1988 to reflect this larger focus.
What is agricultural education, not just farming?
This is the largest agricultural commodity in Georgia.
What is poultry?
This process allows plants to make their own food using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
This industry focuses on managing timber and forest lands.
What is forestry?
These are the three parts of the Total Agricultural Education Program model.
What is the Classroom, FFA and SAE?
This type of competition focuses on agriculture career skills such as livestock judging or floral design.
What is a CDE?
These basic needs—such as food, fiber, and shelter—are all supplied by this industry.
What is agriculture?
This form of plant reproduction uses seeds from male and female parts.
What is sexual propagation?
Products such as lumber, paper, and pine straw come from this resource.
What is forest?
This student organization develops leadership through competitions and service.
What is the FFA?
The Georgia FFA event held each spring in Macon or Athens that hosts thousands of members.
What is the State FFA Convention?
This insect devastated Georgia’s cotton industry but led to major agricultural changes
What is the boll weevil?
Cutting, layering, and grafting are all methods of this type of plant propagation.
What is asexual propagation?
This planned fire is used to improve forest health and reduce wildfire risk.
What is prescribed burns?
This year marked the founding of the National FFA Organization.
What is 1828?
This former organization merged with FFA in 1965.
What is the NFA (New Farmers of America)?
This is the term for items produced in your county, such as cattle, timber, or vegetables.
What are local commodities?
These four conditions—light, air, water, and soil—are necessary for this outcome.
What is plant growth?
This management practice removes smaller or crowded trees to improve forest growth.
What is thinning?
This major event in 1969 changed who could join the FFA.
What is allowing women to join the FFA?
This trend is shaping modern FFA competitions by adding drones, ag robotics, and precision ag content.
What is increased agricultural technology?
Cotton, timber, onions, and peanuts all contribute to this large statewide impact.
What is Georgia’s economy?
This process, opposite photosynthesis, breaks down stored energy for the plant to use.
What is respiration?
This practice involves planting young trees to restore a harvested or damaged forest.
What is reforestation?