proficiency areas
This proficiency area Includes programs in which a member is placed at a newspaper or other agricultural print (such as magazines) facilities to obtain training and practical experience in writing and publicizing in preparation for a writing communications career.
What is Agricultural Communications Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or business that uses the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market beef.
What is Beef Production- Entrepreneurship?
This proficiency area is designed for those students actively engaged in agriscience research and experimentation. This includes members who are actively engaged in doing their own research individually or who may be cooperating on research projects with others including but not limited to teams in school, experiment stations or colleges/universities.
What is Agriscience Research Proficiency Awards?
This proficiency area A member owns an enterprise focused on the acquiring, marketing, and re-selling of FINISHED agricultural/natural resource products not covered in a more appropriate proficiency award category.
What is Agricultural Sales-Entrepreneurship?
This proficiency area Member works in an enterprise or business applying the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market dairy cattle, including the raising of breeding animals for dairy purposes (i.e., bulls and heifers) and raw dairy cattle products.
What is Dairy Production- Placement?
This proficiency area Student owns an enterprise or business that provides experiences in horse production, breeding, marketing, showing and other aspects of the equine industry.
What is Equine Science - Entrepreneurship?
This proficiency area A member works for an enterprise or business focused on acquiring, marketing, and selling agricultural/natural resource products not covered in a more appropriate proficiency award category.
What is Agricultural Sales-Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns or works for an enterprise or business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market plants/arrangements from two or more of the following proficiency areas: landscape installation, nursery operations, turf & landscape maintenance, floricultural production accepted in specialty crop production, and floral design/marketing accepted in agricultural sales.
What is Diversified Horticulture – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member works for a livestock producer applying the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market beef.
What is Beef Production- Placement?
This proficiency area Involves the design and construction of agricultural/natural resource equipment and/or structures for use in or related to any existing agricultural proficiency award area. Materials may include wood, metal, plastic, leather, concrete, electrical, plumbing, data communication components, etc. Excavation, heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning for agricultural/natural resource structures or equipment fits this area. May also include the development of new and emerging agricultural technologies such as engineering, remote sensing, precision agriculture, ag-robotics and other new technologies not covered by another proficiency award area.
What is Agricultural Mechanics Design and Fabrication Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member works for a business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops from two or more of the following proficiency areas: grain production, fiber & oil crop production, forage production, specialty crop production (excluding floriculture production), vegetable production or fruit production.
What is Diversified Crop Production – Placement?
This proficiency area Involves the use of the best management practices available to produce and market a combination of livestock and crops in two or more proficiency areas.
What is Diversified Agricultural Production - Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency award Relates to education and extension, including, but not limited to, youth mentoring, agricultural education departmental assistants, PALS mentors and student coordinators, developing and conducting informational materials and presentations for civic organizations and school-aged youth, and students who are involved in SAEs surrounding educating the public about the broad topics of agriculture, agriculture education and FFA.
What is Agricultural Education Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Students receive practical experience concerned with the principles and practices of managing and/or improving the environment and natural resources.
What is Environmental Science and Natural Resources Management – Entrepreneurship /Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns or works for an agricultural business whose primary activity is to provide agricultural services that are not covered in any other proficiency award area.
What is Agricultural Services – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns an enterprise or business involving the repair and maintenance of agricultural equipment (including lawn and landscape equipment) and/or structures, including agricultural power systems such as mechanical, electrical, chemical, wind, solar and/or waterpower.
What is Agricultural Mechanics Repair and Maintenance – Entrepreneurship?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops for forage such as alfalfa, clover, brome grass, orchard grass, grain forages, corn and grass silages, all pastures and sorghum (not used for grain).
What is Forage Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns an enterprise or business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops from two or more of the following proficiency areas: grain production, fiber & oil crop production, forage production, specialty crop production (excluding floriculture production), vegetable production or fruit production.
What is Diversified Crop Production – Entrepreneurship?
This proficiency area Member works for an employer involved in the repair and maintenance of agricultural equipment (including lawn and landscape equipment) and/or structures, including agricultural power systems such as mechanical, electrical, chemical, wind, solar and/or waterpower.
What is Agricultural Mechanics Repair and Maintenance – Placement?
This proficiency area Involves the use of the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market a combination of animals for two or more of the livestock-related proficiency award areas.
What is Diversified Livestock Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops for fiber and/or oil such as cotton, sisal, hemp, soybeans, sesame seed, flax, mustard, canola, castor beans, sunflower, peanuts, dill, spearmint, and safflower.
What is Fiber and Oil Crop Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area A member owns an enterprise or works for a business of assembling, transporting, processing, fabricating, mixing, packaging and storing food and nonfood agricultural products. Programs could include processing meat, milk, honey, cheese, raisins and other dried fruits, maple syrup and/or other food processing.
What is Agricultural Processing – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Student works for an employer providing experiences in horse production, breeding, marketing, showing and other aspects of the equine industry.
What is Equine Science- Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to conserve or increase the economic value of a forest and/or forest products through such practices as thinning, pruning, weeding, stand improvement, reforestation, insect and disease control, planting, harvesting, Christmas tree farming, making and selling cedar shakes, firewood, wood chips/mulch and working for local, state or federal forest management agencies.
What is Forest Management and Products – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns an enterprise or business and applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market dairy cattle, including the raising of breeding animals for dairy purposes (i.e., bulls and heifers) and raw dairy cattle products.
What is Dairy Production- Entrepreneurship?