Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
Observations all along the line - Kimball & the Southern Panhandle First
180 FFA MEMBERS CONVERGE IN KIMBALL
Kimball High School FFA students Grace Anderson and Cody Brinkman judge the pork loins in Kimball at the District 12 contest.
Students from across the Panhandle attended the District 12 FFA contest in Kimball on Wednesday. Over 180 students from 20 different schools participated in various competitions, including Meat Judging, Livestock Judging, Biotechnology, Nursery/Landscaping, AgriScience, and Agronomy.
First-year teacher Kortni Burnett brought 15 students from Bridgeport. She would have had an additional 20 students, but the Bridgeport basketball team made it to State and those other 20 students went to Lincoln for the tournament.
Kimball FFA had six students participate in the District contest. Grace Anderson, Alycia Vrbas, Landon Norberg, Julia Winstrom, Cody Brinkman and Hayden Sours participated in Meat Judging. Meat Judging includes taking a written test of 20 questions, judging cuts of meat on a slide show, then looking at the real thing and ranking those cuts of meat.
Hemingford Meats brought pork chops, T-bones, pork loins, and short loins for the more than 60 students to judge. Students can only participate in one contest for Career Development Experience at the District level.
According to Morrill-Mitchell FFA adviser Krystal Wilke, the State Convention will be held virtually this year.
"All contests will take place virtually during the last two weeks of March, with results being announced during the week of convention," she said.
Here are the District results:
Junior Livestock Judging - Team Results
**Top 5 Teams advance to state** (Many of the bottom teams didn't have a full 4 kids compete)
1st - Alliance
2nd - Sioux County
3rd - Chadron
4th - Hay Springs
5th - Scottsbluff
6th - Gering
7th - Gordon-Rushville
8th - Bayard
9th - Garden County
10th - Hemingford
11th - Banner County
Junior Livestock Judging - Individual Results
42nd - Wyatt Reichenberg (Banner County)
45th - Marie Hein (Banner County)
Senior Livestock Judging - Team Results
**Top 5 teams advance to state** (Many of the bottom teams didn't have a full 4 kids compete)
1st - Alliance
2nd - Morrill-Mitchell
3rd - Sidney
4th - Chadron
5th - Hay Springs
6th - Gering
7th - Gordon-Rushville
8th - Crawford
9th - Leyton
10th - Sioux County
11th - Bridgeport
12th - Scottsbluff
13th - Banner County
14th - Bayard
15th - Garden County
16th - Potter Dix
Senior Livestock Judging - Individual Results
24th - Macee McConkey (Banner County)
49th - Luke Kasten (Potter-Dix)
52nd - Helen Hein (Banner County)
Agronomy - Team Results
**This is not a "qualifying" contest, any team can chose to participate at state**
1st - Alliance
2nd - Morrill-Mitchell
3rd - Sidney
4th - Creek Valley
5th - Gordon-Rushville
6th - Sioux County
7th - Hay Springs
8th - Hemingford ronomy..
Agriscience - Team Results
**This is not a "qualifying" contest, any team can choose to participate at state. This is a first-year member contest, so is primarily for freshmen students. The event at Kimball is just a practice for those wishing to go to state in this area**
1st - Hay Springs 1
2nd - Chadron
3rd - Hay Springs 2
4th - Bridgeport
5th - Crawford
Ag Biotechnology - Team Results
**The top 2 teams advance to state**
1st - Chadron
2nd - Gordon-Rushville
3rd - Sioux County
Meat Judging - Team Results
**This is not a "qualifying" contest, any team can choose to participate at state.**
1st - Gordon-Rushville
2nd - Minatare
3rd- Bridgeport
4th - Bayard
5th - Banner County
6th - Creek Valley
7th - Kimball
8th - Alliance
9th - Chadron
10th - Sidney
11th - Sioux County
12th - Hay Springs
13th - Morrill-Mitchell
14th - Potter Dix
Meat Judging - Individual Results
18th - Makyla Mason (Banner County)
20th - Adam Knaub (Banner County)
22nd - Alex Rundell (Banner County)
24th - Julia Winstrom (Kimball)
25th - Alycia Vrbas (Kimball)
29th - Kailey Nicklas (Potter-Dix)
38th - Grace Anderson (Kimball)
39th - Cody Brinkman (Kimball)
40th - Landon Norberg (Kimball)
50th - Jacob Parsons (Banner County)
Nursery/Landscape - Team Results
**Top 4 teams advance to state**
1st - Scottsbluff
2nd - Bayard
3rd - Hay Springs
4th - Minatare
5th - Chadron
6th - Crawford
7th - Morrill-Mitchell