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Supervised Agricultural Experience
Beef Production
– Member owns the enterprise or business that uses the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market beef. This award area is for any animals raised mainly to produce beef and all beef breed animals, including miniature Herefords, Zebu, etc. Beef Production- Placement – Member work
Market Beef
- Member purchases a market Steer in the fall then feed the steer through spring and summer and works with the animal to be the best in showmanship. The member then shows and sales the market steer at the local fair.
Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market sheep, raw sheep products and wool.
Sheep Production
Market Lamb
- Member purchases a market lamb in the spring then feed the lamb through summer and works with the animal to be the best in showmanship. The member then shows and sales the market lamb at the local fair.
Swine Production
– Member owns an enterprise that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market swine and their raw products.
Market Swine
- Member purchases a market pig in the spring then feed the pig through summer and works with the animal to be the best in showmanship. The member then shows and sales the market swine at the local fair.
Goat Production
- Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that involves the use of the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market goats and all raw goat products. NOTE: Processed products are better suited to the Agricultural Processing award area.
Market Goat
- Member purchases a Market goat in the spring then feed the goat through summer and works with the animal to be the best in showmanship. The member then shows and sales the market goat at the local fair.
Fabrication
– Involves the design and construction of agricultural equipment and/or structures, and/or selection of the structural materials, and/or implementation of plans for utilizing wood, metal, plastic, concrete, electricity, plumbing, data communication cable systems, heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning or other materials into agricultural settings. May also include the development of new and emerging agricultural technologies such as engineering, remote sensing, precision agriculture, ag-robotics and other new technologies not covered by a more appropriate area
Vegetable Crops
Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market unprocessed crops such as asparagus, beans, potatoes, sweet potatoes, yams, pumpkins, sweet corn, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, hot peppers and all common garden vegetables.
Forage Crops
– Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that includes the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops for forage such as alfalfa, clover, brome grass, orchard grass, grain forages, corn and grass silages, all pastures and sorghum (not used for grain).
Nursery Operation
– Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that provides experience in growing, marketing and selling ornamental plants, vegetable starter plants, shrubs and/or tree production for the purpose of transplanting or propagation. This could include water garden plants if produced for sale.
Grain Crops
– Member owns the enterprise or works for a crop producer or grain production related business that applies the best management practices available to efficiently produce and market crops for grain production such as corn, barley (including the malting types), millet, buckwheat, oats, grain sorghum, milo, wheat, rice and rye. Production of certified grain seed is included in this area.
Outdoor Recreation
Member owns the enterprise, or works for a business that develops or provides outdoor recreational activities for public or family use as experiential or income-producing enterprises. These enterprises could include agrotourism, vacation cabins and cottages, camping and/or picnic areas, recreational fishing, and/or hunting areas, winter sports, shooting preserves, guide services, riding stables, trail rides (ATV, horseback, etc.), vacation farms and guest ranches, natural scenic or historic areas, and running petting zoos and rodeo events where the member does not own or manage animals
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