proficiency awards
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?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market chickens, turkeys, domestic fowl such as ducks, geese and guinea, and their raw products.
What is Poultry Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a crop producer or grain production related business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops for grain production such as corn, barley (including the malting types), millet, buckwheat, oats, grain sorghum, milo, wheat, rice and rye. Production of certified grain seed is included in this area.
What is Grain 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 sheep, raw sheep products and wool.
What is Sheep Production – 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 Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes experiences with designing and installing landscapes (outdoor and indoor), including plants, shrubs, turf and trees.
What is Landscape Installation – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Student owns the enterprise, or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market small animals such as all rabbits, cats, dogs, mice, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, lizards, snakes, small birds (such as canaries, cockatiels, cockatoos, parakeets, parrots, etc.) and programs that typically provide a service in caring for the well-being of pets.
What is Small Animal Production and Care – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member works for an employer that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market swine and their raw products.
What is Swine Production – Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that develops or provides outdoor recreational activities for public or family use as experiential or income-producing enterprises.
What is Outdoor Recreation – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market specialty animals and their raw products within the agriculture industry.
What is Specialty Animal Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member researches an agriculturally related community need(s), develops a written plan which defines the identified need and the proposed service solution.
What is Service-Learning – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes the improvement and the availability of fish and wildlife through practices such as land and water habitat improvement or development, wildlife surveys, trapping or the stocking of fish and wild game.
What is Wildlife Production and Management – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that involves the use of the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market goats and all raw goat products.
What is Goat Production - Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes experiences with maintaining plants and shrubs, landscaping, grounds keeping, sprinkler repair/maintenance, lawn mowing and care services and sport field or golf course grounds maintenance.
What is Turf & Landscape Maintenance – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that provides experience in growing, marketing, and selling ornamental plants, vegetable starter plants, shrubs and/or tree production for the purpose of transplanting or propagation.
What is Nursery Operations – 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 owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops for fruit and nuts such as stone fruits, pome fruits, citrus fruits, pineapples, coconuts, berries, cranberries, melons, grapes, olives, nuts (not peanuts) and all common fruits.
What is Fruit & Nut Production – Entrepreneurship/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 Member owns an enterprise that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market swine and their raw products.
What is Swine 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 Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market raw crops not covered in any of the existing award categories such as: native prairie plants, sugar beets, dry edible beans, green peanuts, gourds, tobacco, specialty corns (popcorn, white corn, Indian corn), all grass seed production, herbs and spices, mushrooms, sugar cane, hops, sorghum cane, confectionary sunflowers, production of crop seed and floriculture production. (such as chrysanthemums, daylilies, etc.)
What is Specialty Crop Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
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 the enterprise or works for a business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market unprocessed crops such as asparagus, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, hot peppers and all common garden vegetables.
What is Vegetable Production – Entrepreneurship/Placement?
This proficiency area Member owns the enterprise or works for a business that includes working with veterinarians in clinical practice, research facilities, colleges of veterinary medicine, animal health industry, or any other environment in which they assist veterinarians in performing duties related to the health of people and/or the health and welfare of large and small animals. This experience must be under the supervision of a veterinarian and may include wage earning, entrepreneurial or exploratory activities not limited to hands-on care of animals, management of business aspects of a veterinary practice, or working on legislation or regulations relating to animals.
What is Veterinary Science – Entrepreneurship/Placement?