Walla Walla FFA

Fair Update!

Today Jaycee Cox, Rem McBride, and Reagan Leiferman competed in the All Around Round Robin!
They all did a phenomenal job!

Congratulations to Jaycee Cox for winning the Grand Champion Overall All Around Showman!

The results are in! Over the past two days our FFA members have been showing their animals in market, breeding, and showmanship classes.

Market Results

Goats:
Reagan Leiferman: FFA Champion Goat
Kiauna Snyder: FFA Reserve Champion Goat

Steer:
Max Cox: Overall Reserve Market Steer, FFA Champion Steer

Rate of Gain Champion - Sheldon Coburn

Sheep:
Natalie Lieuallen: FFA Reserve Champion Lamb
Pen of 4: Owen Hand, Carson Hand, Makenna Wright, and Hanna Wright.

Swine:
Reagan Reser: Overall Market Hog, FFA Champion Hog
Alexis Jones: FFA Reserve Market Hog

Breeding Results

Jaycee Cox: Grand Champion Registered White Face Ewe.

Showmanship Results

Sheep:
Madison Doyle: FFA Reserve Novice Showman

Swine:
Rem McBride: FFA Champion Showman, FFA Advanced Champion Showman
Keeley Preston: FFA Reserve Champion Showman, FFA Advanced Reserve Showman
Ellie Edwards: FFA Champion Novice Showman
Ellie Ford: FFA Reserve Champion Novice Showman

Steer:
Jaycee Cox: FFA Champion Steer Showman

Goats:
Reagan Leiferman: FFA Champion Goat Showman
Kiauna Snyder: FFA Reserve Champion Goat Showman

Small Animals

Chickens:
Kelli Taylor: FFA Champion and Reserve Champion Chickens

Rabbits:
Kelli Taylor: Multiple Champion and Reserve Champion Awards
Alexa Kemp: Multiple Champion and Reserve Champion Awards

Western Games
Poles, Stakes and Barrels: Teegan Timmons 1st
Keyhole and Flags: Madison Worden

Livestock Judging
Pre-Fair:
1st place team: Makenna Wright, Hanna Wright, and Madison Worden
2nd Overall: Kinsey Appleford and Tazie Betzler (tie)
3rd Overall: Makenna Wright
4th Overall: Owen Hand
5th Overall: Kaiya Witcher
6th Overall: Hanna Wright
7th Overall: Ellie Ford
9th Overall: Kenny Gabel
10th Overall: Madison Worden

Fair:
1st Overall: Jaycee Cox
7th Overall: Sheldon Coburn
10th Overall: Reagan Leiferman

The fair is officially underway! All market animals weighed in earlier this morning and students are now competing in Livestock Judging!

This is it! Fair officially kicks off this week. Today we setup pens in the goat barn, steer barn, sheep barn, pig barn, small animal barn, and put up displays in the education building and pavilion! Great work today

✨Woohoo!!! Congratulations to our student members for their awesome work this last year and getting recognized nationally! Walla Walla is a two star national chapter!!! Congratulations to all the students that put in extra effort this last year to help the program grow! Including our individual projects- taking Bronze in their Plant Science Agriscience Fair project is Mandy and Makenna! ✨

Working hard and efficiently on planning this year’s program of activities. Missing Quinton!

Last night wrapped up day two of the 2024-2025 Officer Retreat! So far our officer team has learned all about what it means to be a leader, how to take accountability, and created goals for the upcoming year! Some activities have included Build A Leader, Leadership Skits, Accountability Circle, and Brainstorm for the Future. Today, we look forward to planning events and meetings for this school year!

Not pictured is Quinton, our chapter Sentinel. He is currently completing an internship with Boeing!!

Summer is rolling along and our FFA members are getting ready for a new school year and our upcoming county fair 🐐🐑🐮🐖🐴⭐️

Check out our award-winning 2023-2024 chapter scrapbook ⭐️ Thank you to Walla Walla Public Schools for digitizing this cool project!

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We are excited to announce our 2024-2025 Walla Walla FFA Officer Team elected at our Awards Banquet last week!

Pictured from left to right:
Treasurer: Alexa Kemp
Leadership Council Growing Leaders: Makenna Wright
President: Hanna Wright
Leadership Council Growing Leaders: Kaiya Witcher
Leadership Council Strengthening Ag: Kinzey Appleford
Sentinel: Quinton Grimes
Co Vice-President: Parker Morgan
Parliamentarian: Baylee Appleford
Leadership Council Building Communities: Aaden Repoff
Historian: Breanna Sweeney
Reporter: Alexis Jones
Secretary: Teegan Timmons
Not Pictured: Co Vice-President: Race Hubbard

Cannot wait to see the amazing things this team has in store for next school year!

Last night we were excited to see several of our students honored for their achievements in FFA competitions including Horse judging, Agri-science research, first year member and scrapbook. Thank you to Walla Walla Public Schools for recognizing our students efforts and success.

You are invited!!! We are excited to celebrate what a wonderful and HUGE year it has been for our members! Please join us at the Wa-Hi Commons on May 30th at 6:30pm to recognize all our amazing accomplishments, recognize our members, and announce the 2024-2025 Officer Team!

Go Max! Great job!

We are looking forward to seeing six of our senior FFA members earn the Washington FFA Degree. These members have multiple years of active membership, shown their leadership with community service and have maintained supervised agriculture experience projects. We are so proud of these students ❤️

Day 1 State Convention Update! It was a busy day on Thursday for many of our 26 students attending convention!

Our Ag Issues team presented their issue “The Right to Repair” and saved their best presentation for the State competition. Unfortunately, they did not get to move forward but they represented our Walla Walla community extremely well! Proud of you Parker, Kylie, Breanna, Natalie, and Tazie!

Our two First Year Member teams also competed yesterday morning and Walla Walla 1 made it into the Top 8! We will find out where they placed on stage tonight!

Last night, our pre-convention CDE accolades were also presented and showed off for the stage including Ag Mechanics and top 10 individual Treyton, Horse Judging and top 10 individual Hanna, and our Livestock Judging top 10 individual Jaycee! Way to represent our school!!

We also got to see one of our retiring state FFA officers give her retiring address including some of her families Walla Walla FFA jackets- to say the least it was cool to see a jacket from the 1940s! Such amazing history of our chapter!!!

Tune in tonight for an update on today’s activities!

If you are interested in seeing our students in action and supporting local FFA and
4-H members, go check out the Milton-Freewater Junior Show this weekend! We have four FFA members exhibiting livestock 🐖🤠 Best of luck to Keeley, Rylee, Reagan and Max! You rock⭐️

Our FFA members are everywhere, doing great things! Here is an awesome photo of Jaycee Cox and her prospect steer at the Spokane Junior Show! Jaycee’s steer was the champion prospect steer of the show and she earned 4th place overall showman⭐️ Way to go Jaycee!

Yesterday this group of students competed in the Washington FFA State Livestock Judging Career Development Event held at the Spokane Junior Livestock Show. Their hard work this spring paid off with their team placing tenth out of 38 teams! Jaycee Cox showed her skills and placed fourth individually! Way to go ladies!

Fun day at a practice livestock judging contest at the Central Washington Junior Livestock Show in Toppen*sh! Our team is prepared to take on the Washington FFA State CDE on Wednesday in Spokane!

Let the countdown begin! Our FFA plant sale is this Thursday, May 2nd from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Hanging baskets and metalwork from Mrs. Johnson’s welding students will join the “for sale items” along with the flowering plants in 4” pots. Hope to see you there!

Thanks to all who supported our presale; we would appreciate it if your plants could be picked up on Wednesday between 2:30-4:30.

Today this talented team placed ⭐️second⭐️ at the Washington FFA State Horse Judging CDE! Congratulations to Alexis Jones, Madison Worden, Hanna Wright (who placed eighth out of 125 contestants today) Teegan Timmons, Ellie Ford, and Makenna Wright! All those 7:00 AM Tuesday practices paid off 😎

Thank you to the Washington FFA staff for planning a fun and challenging day! Thank you to Dr. Joey Bergevin and Cassie Bergevin for the donation of the awesome Central Washington Equine Arena for todays contest!

Yesterday, 4 students competed at the Washington FFA State Agriscience Fair during the State Spring Fair in Puyallup. Freshmen Amanda Tilley and Makenna Wright presented their research on the effects of moisture on hay nutrition. Sophomores Ellie Strickland and Anneliese Triebwasser presented their findings on the impact of school farms on students.

Congratulations to Amanda and Makenna for placing first at state in their division! They will be submitting their project for Nationals consideration! They will also be recognized at state convention in May.

Another congratulations to Ellie and Anneliese for placing second in state in their division. They will be recognized at state convention next month!

The FFA Plant Sale will be 8 am to 5 pm on May 2nd in front of the vocational building on Abbott Road.

There is a pre-sale going on right until April 30th. The link is posted below and you may sign up by clicking on the “Guest Account” button. Pre-sale orders may be picked up Wednesday afternoons between 2:30-4.

The in-person plant sale will feature many annuals, hanging baskets and garden/lawn items made by Mrs. Johnson’s welding students. Hope to see you there!

Thank-you for supporting Walla Walla FFA!

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You know who’s awesome???? Our Vet Science Team and First Year Member Teams!!! Our teams traveled the long distance to Waitsburg this morning and all their studying and practicing paid off!!!

Vet Science completed the ID, math, and written tests in addition to their handling and clinical practicums. Well done to Hanna, Brintel, Raegan, Mandy, and Mahaela for placing 4th and big shout out to Hanna for placing 6th Individual!

Our two First Year Member teams consisting of all freshman rocked their team test and team presentation of building a garden. Team 1- Kinzey, Aaden, Sloane, and Peyton- placed 2nd and Team 2- Makenna, Ellie, Aubrey, and Kaiya- placed 1st!!!!

Way to go Blue Devils!!!!

Congratulations to our Ag Mechanics team for placing 8th out of 25 teams at yesterdays state contest! Treyton Sams was the high placing individual of the team, placing 7th overall. Thank you to the Perry Technical Institute staff for hosting a fun and challenging event, the Washington FFA Foundation for providing lunch for FFA members and the WSU Ag Ed students for their efforts facilitating the contest.