MHS FFA places in district contests
More than 160 students from 17 schools participated this past week at Marion High School in South Central District FFA career development events.
Marion/Florence FFA chapter hosted the annual contest.
The local chapter's A-team placed third overall and the two greenhand teams of freshmen placed first and second overall.
Students competed in three categories — poultry, entomology, and dairy foods.
In the poultry contest, students judged chicken eggs, live chickens, and prepared chicken as consumers find in a grocery store.
Students had to identify 50 insects in the entomology category and take a written test.
Various types of cheese and milk were examined and sampled by contestants in the dairy foods category.
Students from Marion, Centre, Goessel, Hillsboro, Arkansas City, Buhler, Chaparral, Ellinwood, Great Bend, Inman, Haven, McPherson, Newton, South Barber, South Haven, Wellington, and Winfield.
Results of area schools:
Overall winners: A-team division, Marion, third.
Greenhand team division: Marion, first; Marion, second.
Poultry: A-team, Centre, ninth; Hillsboro, 10th.
Greenhand team: Centre, fourth.
Entomology: A-team, Marion, third.
Greenhand team: Marion, first; Marion, second, Goessel, fourth.
Individual placing: Hank Collett, Marion, seventh; Kyle Hett, Marion, eighth.
Individual placing, greenhand: Zach Baird, Marion, first; Brittany Bailey, Marion, second; Kevin Billbe, Marion, third; Emmanuel Jackson, Marion, fourth; Andrew Regalado, Marion, fifth; Danielle Smith, Marion, sixth; Bryce Suffield, Marion, eighth; Austin Percell, 10th.
Dairy foods: A-team, Goessel, first; Centre, seventh.
B-Team, Centre, second.
Greenhand team: Goessel, third.
Individual placing: Chad Schrag, Goessel, second; Justin Fensky, Goessel, third; Alex Drake, Goessel, fifth; Bubba Holder, Goessel, 10th.
Individual placing, greenhand: Robin Wilcox, Goessel, first; Nellie Hill, Centre, fifth.
