Food
This CDE is designed to promote learning activities in food science and technology related to the food industry and to assist students in developing practical knowledge of principles used in a team decision-making process.
Food Science and Technology
The amount of students that can participate in an agricultural communications group
What is 4?
The event where students solve problems related to everything from the nutrition and reproduction of horses.
What is Horse Evaluation?
Four person team event designed to create an interest in the floriculture industry
What is floriculture?
The team works to solve the problem and prepare a report while judges evaluate, then individuals complete a written exam that covers five agricultural tech and mech areas
What is Agricultural Technology and Mechanical Systems?
This component of the contest each participant will be given five scenarios representing general consumer inquiries. Participants must determine if the consumer inquiry reflects a quality or safety issue (two points per scenario) and determine if it is a biological, chemical or physical concern or hazard (three points per scenario).
Customer Inquiry
What is the importance of agricultural communications
For students to learn a variety of such as journalistic and opinion writing, website design, video production, social media and more
Students make accurate and logical observations of livestock.
What is livestock evaluation?
The team portion of the event calls on students respond to a forest industry scenario
What is forestry?
Advocating to consumers about the agriculture and FFA story and challenges students to communicate effectively
What is Agricultural Communications
Each participant will be asked to identify four different foods via what sense.
What is smell?
What type of plan will groups have to present to judges?
Written Media plan
Students evaluate beef carcasses for quality and yield grade, and identify various meat cuts and place carcasses.
What is meat evaluation/tech?
Test students skills in maintaining landscape plants and related products
Teams are provided an example product, product information and customer profiles at the start of the event where they collaboratively create a sales plan
What is Agricultural Sales?
Both the team and individual competition have how many parts to them
What is 3?
What will students advocate to consumers about?
A- farming
B-dairy quality
C- livestock
D- the ffa story
The FFA Story
Select live meat-type chickens for broiler breeding, and evaluate and place live egg-type hens
What is poultry evaluation?
Just like professionals working the environmental and natural resource industry - in pursuit of recognition for demonstrating skills relevant to GPS navigation, soil science, water management and wildlife conservation.
What is Environmental and Natural Resources?
Helps students learn business skills and apply economic principles to agricultural businesses
What is Farm and Agribusiness Management?
How many food related events are there?
Ag communications is a ______ communication between 2 people.
A- interpersonal
B-mass
C- public
D-small group
Interpersonal
Judges provide a dairy farm management scenario with problems and solutions that must be identified as if they were a hired consultant advising a dairy producer
What is Dairy Cattle Management/Evaluation?
Teams of four students in this event evaluate a agronomic scenario and develop a crop management plan that includes crop selection, production, problem solving and marketing
What is agronomy?
Challenges students to investigate a variety of current local, state, national and international issues
What is Agricultural Issues Forum?