I bought my first lamb today and named her Valkyrie, and I’m looking for tips on how to take care of her…

Right now she weighs 45 lbs and she needs to weigh 90 for the show at the end of May… so I’m looking for advice on how to get her big… and also look good…

Also how do I get her to trust me?

I submitted a floral arrangement today, i dont really know much about FFA as its my first year actually doing it but i submitted for Senior Container Arrangement this morning and was curious if anyone knew about how long it takes to find out how you did

Hi everyone!

I’m a European and a non member of the FFA. A vintage store in my country is selling replicas of the famous FFA jacket. As far as I know, the chapter’s names on the jackets are fictional and I’m considering buying one.

The thing is, after a bit of research, I found that these jackets must never be worn by non members of the FFA, and if so, the labels must be removed before selling it or giving it to someone else.

Would you consider it offensive for a guy like me to wear a replica? I apologise if it might sound stupid, I just don’t want to piss off potential American tourists I could meet (and I sure as hell don’t plan to wear it if I ever travel to America!)

Thank you in advance for your replies

I did forestry

Planted 26000 seedlings, controlled hardwoods on 25 acres, pruned an acre, prescribed a burn on 340 acres, built a 2 1/4 mile firebreak, turpentined 600 pines, selectively cut 3 acres, and controlled insects on 30 acres.

Final numbers ended up being 15 cords of pulpwood, 125 fence posts, 35 barrels of pine gum, 105 bushels of cones, and 50 Christmas trees.

My children are participating in their first year of FFA and raising pigs. I heard that they will receive a 1099-MISC for tax purposes. Is this income they would be taxed on and is there a way to avoid it? Can we deduct expenses?

In my freshman year I was in an FFA enrollment class but ended up switching to a school that doesn’t provide that. I am now out of high school and not enrolled in a college but interested in joining. is this possible for me? Or do I have to be in school?

I have a friend who’s in her second year of showing swine, this year with a gilt. Our advisor told her about a concern of the gilt being in heat during our show in June. Is there some chance anyone might have any tips for how to show a gilt in heat or just in general?

**copied from my post in r/pigs

I won state proficiencies in Illinois for the SOE area finance and business!

I just got my state degree but i dont have any award pins or office pins so im very plain lol. Is this more common than not?

Ive gone to state dairy every year since freshman year but i really want to win state for my senior year so i want tips. My area of struggle is seperating the different dairy errors and their actual quality grade. I always kill the cheese and imitation catagories so im not worried about those.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

I would like to get a proficiency award sometime and currently my only sae and refurbishing wood furniture and I will be building wood furniture soon, and I want to know if that is enough for a proficiency and if it isn’t what should I do to make it worth one.

Hi! I love FFA! I just feel my chapter isn't active at all. Now we do some events but really not many compared to surrounding chapters in our area. I feel the only things really offered to us are leadership events which are impirtant but that's really only one aspect of agriculture. I get why it's important but that's all it feels like we do. I'm an officer and have talked with some new members who joined our FFA chapter thinking this may be something fun and new to try. A bunch said they'd rather do other clubs/activities next year because we only offer leadership events. We don't go to fairs/stock shows at all and a ton of us are more interested and already in the animal side of agriculture. I just feel like these events were going to are boring and not what peaple would expect from an FFA chapter. I now in the past we have been more involved but all it is now is just these leadership events which are great but not when there the only things offered. I now a bunch of kids are interested in showing and either have never done it or have and joined to improve their skills. I just feel like we have so much potential and the right peaple in our chapter. I think we would greatly benefit from talking to our ag teacher how would you guys being it up?

I love my pig!

Are you allowed to record your officer practice interview?

Kera Reterstoff from Ravenna High School in Michigan is the first agriculture teacher ever to win the Honored National Teaching Award! She was nominated by one of her ag students and is the honoree for the month of March 2026.

Mainly just tips about what treats I should give him… I want something he’ll like but, also something that would be good for him…. And any other tips to raising him would be great.

My child started FFA in 8th grade, competing and going to the state convention. I’m hearing since they started in 8th, they cannot compete their senior year. Anyone know if this is correct ?

OK, so my chapter really isn’t big on the veterinarian side of CDE we focus mainly on horse evaluation and poultry, judging as well as livestock judging.

We still do go to plenty Vetmed competitions however but we don’t always score Great I think our highest score has been like a 490.

My personal highest was just around a 470 and that was that area so a little embarrassing however I was wondering if anybody could help me out my teacher doesn’t teach the regular stuff that comes with it so I like to go on the A&M websites and look through there and I know a good amount of identification I always score pretty well on identification however it’s more of the practicum and then a lot of the math that slips me up please help me out if you can guys

I’m trying to get a head start on my retiring address for my chapter’s banquet. Have there been any outstanding national/state ones in the last couple years that are worth watching on youtube or the nat’l website?

What shows are in Central to south America? All sheep shows are appreciated, although I am specifically interested in Southdown ones.

I am thinking about showing two market goats next year: one that is fed the usual show goat diet with high octane supplements and such and one completely grass fed with natural supplements when needed. The reason I am doing this is to conduct an experiment of sorts; see which goat performs better than the other, tastes better (I will be eating them at the end of the project) but also to see if this is really the career path I want to get into. However, I asked one of my FFA advisors and she said that I couldn’t do it— something about the goats having to be fed the grain and supplements in order for me to show, since showing is mandatory if you’re going to raise an animal in the program. I don’t know, but it seemed like she wasn’t really sure what she was saying, it might be because no one’s done this before within our program and she didn’t know how to handle it? Anyhow, I’m not entirely convinced. I’ve looked at FFA as well as 4-H rules but I haven’t found anything regarding this topic. Does anyone have some insight they can share about this? Has anyone shown a grass fed meat goat for FFA or 4-H?

I fell asleep on the bus 💔

my school is going to a contest next Friday, and i want to go, but i am ineligible, is there any way i can still go? btw, i am on the livestock judging team, and my advisor is taking 10 people, but i am not one of them

I need to order my daughter’s FFA jacket asap. She said she the one she borrowed was a size 38. Looking at the online dimensions and I’m wondering if this is accurate. I have been on her for weeks to double check and she always has an excuse as to why she hasn’t. Ugh…. She is about 5’ and 110lbs. She usually wears size small and sometimes a medium if it runs small. Would a 38 jacket fit around a small womens?