Brokaw FFA Members Compete in Soils Judging Competition
Four Brokaw FFA members of Clarinda recently competed in the Iowa FFA State Soils Evaluation Career Development Event at Iowa State University on Friday, April 30 in Ames, Iowa. The team of Hailee Knight, Jadyn Sunderman, Jason Wright, and Colby Carlson received a Gold rating and placed 3rd out of 30 teams from across Iowa. Jason placed 7th overall and Colby placed 8th overall out of a total of 116 individuals. In a normal year, the third place finish would qualify our soils team to compete in the National Land & Range Judging competition in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Due to COVID-19, this year’s national contest has been cancelled. This marks the eleventh time in the last eighteen years that a soils team from Clarinda has qualified for the national competition.
The soils event included the judging of four soil pits, plus a written test on soils in Iowa. The score card used to judge the soil pits is divided into five parts: Surface Features, Soil Features- The Profile, Land Capability Classification and Productivity Potential, Evaluation of Management Practices, and Suitability of Soils for Non-Agricultural Uses.
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The Brokaw FFA Chapter Soils team placed 3rd at the Iowa FFA State Soils CDE at ISU on April 30. Team members competing included, left to right: Jason Wright, Jadyn Sunderman, Hailee Knight, and Colby Carlson.