Notice!

You do not have to name the members of your non-qualifying team until the day of the contest, but please remember that your school must be registered to enter each contest in which you wish to compete.

FFA members who are agriculture students in Wisconsin secondary schools are invited to participate in the 2008 State FFA Career Development Event managed by the UW-Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences. The competitive activities of this educational event will reflect some of the abilities needed in the successful production of good profitable livestock, livestock products and crops. Participants develop skills related to selecting good breeding stock for meat, milk, wool and egg production; selecting and managing crops; using machinery, managing the farm and in natural resource management.

The Wisconsin State FFA Career Development Events are planned so that those who win will be able to compete in similar events in national contests.

R. H. Daluge, Contest Manager Phone: (608) 263-3918 K. Knipschild, Contest Manager (608)263-7984 Fax: (608) 265-5905

Announcement of Winners

With the increase in numbers of students participating in the Wisconsin State FFA Career Development Events, it has become impractical to attempt to get the results of all contest divisions in the mail the day of or even the day after the contest has been held. With the agreement of the State FFA Career Development Events Committee, the office of the Contest Manager will set no specific time for getting the results in the mail to instructors. Instead, the staff will simply make every effort to get the results to instructors as soon as all are reported in from each contest division Superintendent. A website listing results will be available at: http://www.cals.wisc.edu/students/ffa/Results.htm 

Trip Awards - Team & Instructor

Dairy Cattle, Dairy Cattle Showing, Dairy Foods, Poultry and Eggs, Livestock, Meat, Floriculture, Nursery/Landscape, Farm Business Management, Agricultural Mechanics, Forestry, Food Science, Horse Evaluation and Sales will attend the National FFA Contest.

NOTE: The State FFA Career Developments Events may provide up to $125 IF THE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE to each of the teams who win in the State contest and who compete in the National contest. A $50 reimbursement will be given for the Dairy Cattle Showing Contest. To gain this support, the team advisor must write to the Contest Manager, Room 116 Agriculture Hall, University of Wisconsin-Madison 53706. Each advisor must also submit a comparison of the State and National contests before receipt of funds. Funds must be requested by December 31st of the current year. Other funds may be available from the State Association of the FFA, or from local chapters.

All members of the above teams must be bona fide FFA members to be eligible for National competition.