FFA participants: Pattonsburg students pictured front row, left to right: Drayson McCrary, Jaden Gannan, Ryelin Hulet and Duke Hoover. Pictured back row, left to right: Joey Courtney, Kayleigh Pankau, Quincy Crone, Gage Iddings, Kierra de Jong and Wyatt Thompson.
Pattonsburg, MO: The Pattonsburg FFA has had a couple of busy months during the months of March and April. We took a Farm Management team and a Dairy Cattle team to the Lathrop contest on March 14th. Farm Management placed 6th out of 17 teams. The Farm Management team members are Joey Courtney, Quincy Crone, Jaden Gannan, Ryelin Hulet, and Kayleigh Pankau. The Dairy Cattle team placed 8th out of 24 teams. The Dairy Cattle team consists of Kierra de Jong, Gage Iddings, and Wyatt Thompson. Both teams then traveled to Trenton for the NCMC Ag Club Contest on March 17. Farm Management placed 4th out of 15 teams and Dairy Cattle placed 18th out of 32 teams. The Savannah Contest was next and both teams did really well. Farm Management placed 3rd out of 16 teams, and Dairy Cattle placed 2nd out of 28 teams.–By Kayleigh Pankau, Chapter Secretary