Tag: FFA

INDIANAPOLIS — Marmaton Valley High School’s FFA chapter was well represented at the National FFA Milk Quality and Products Career Development Event. Winners were announced Nov. 1 at the annual awards banquet, held in conjunction…

INDIANAPOLIS — The Iola High School FFA chapter competed in the Dairy Cattle Evaluation and Management CDE at Nationals for the second year in a row. Iola placed in the silver division as a team…

Nearly 70,000 young people recently attended the National FFA convention in Indianapolis. I could write a book about all of the awesome things that happen at this event and how it changes lives. One of…

A pack of 175 first-graders learned firsthand about life on the farm Monday. The annual Fall Ag Day event, hosted by Strickler Dairy, allowed students from Iola, Humboldt, Marmaton Valley and Yates Center schools to…

MORAN — Marmaton Valley USD 256 will receive a $2,500 grant, courtesy of area farmer Jim Armstrong. The donation was made possible through the America’s Farmers Grow Communities program, sponsored by the Bayer Fund. Celebrating…

MANHATTAN — Several area high school FFA members earned their State FFA Degrees at the 91st Kansas FFA Convention, which ran Wednesday through Friday at Kansas State University. The state degree is the highest honor…

MANHATTAN —The Marmaton Valley FFA team secured a state champion at recently completed State Career Development Events at Kansas Sate University. Marmaton Valley’s Milk Quality and Products team placed first overall, led by individual champion…

MANHATTAN — Iola High School’s FFA chapter brought home several top awards at the Kansas State FFA Career Development Event, which ran Sunday through Tuesday at K-State University. The IHS dairy cattle team, buoyed by…

MORAN ? The Marmaton Valley High School gymnasium was transformed into a bustling factory floor Friday afternoon when dozens of area FFA members ? led by a group from Moran ? assembled in lines to…

WASHINGTON (AP) ? As country after country grounded Boeing?s 737 Max jets after a deadly crash Sunday in Ethiopia, U.S. air safety regulators remained resolute in their refusal to do so ? until Wednesday. That?s…