Bedford FFA

03/04/2022

We are taking orders for Bedford FFA Clothing items. Please print off and return to the Secondary office by Monday, March 7, by noon, if you want to order. For any questions please email Mr. Smith at [email protected]

02/23/2022

In honor of National FFA Week, please join us Thursday morning at the Ag shop for our Free Will Donation community Breakfast.

02/16/2022

Last week FFA members traveled to a Des Moines to judge swine at the 2022 Pork Congress. The Bedford 1 Team placed 24/127 teams and Bedford 2 Team placed 72/127. Members judged market hog, breeding hogs, keep/cull class, live carcass evaluation, carcass test, commercial swine test.

There were 552 individuals participating in the contest. Results are as followed:
Conner Nally 27/552
Noah Johnson 171/552
Hunter Blackford 177/552
Tate Rowan 183/552
Niah McMillin 221/552
Garrison Motsinger 274/552
Micah Johnson 305/552

01/10/2022

10/08/2021

On Thursday 15 members of the Bedford FFA chapter traveled to Maryville, MO for the NWMSU Fall CDE day.

9 members participated in Livestock judging and brought home 8th overall as a team out of 56 teams!
In the individual scoring out 175 participants the top 3 scorers were:
10th: Noah Johnson
40th: Tate Rowan
53rd: Conner Nally

2 members participated in the Horse Evaluation contest with 101 participants
15: Trey Hill
56: Dawson Stream

1 member participated in the Agronomy contest with 65 participants
17: Brayden Bissell

Members Emily Baker, Hunter Pearce and Hayden Beemer participated in the soils contest.

05/07/2021

Today Bedford Ag and FFA students were able to host our annual Ag Safety Day! It was such a beautiful day to be outdoors and teach the younger grades about Agriculture! Thank you to all who participated and brought livestock, equipment and supplies to make this day happen.

04/22/2021

Earlier this week 10 members from the Bedford FFA Chapter were able to travel Des Moines and attend the 93rd Iowa FFA Leadership Conference. Members attending were Dylan Swaney, Kaden Kalfee, Tanner Snethen, Cailyn Akers, Noah Johnson, Dawson Stream, Emily Baker, Trisha McKay and Niah McMillin.

On Monday the Bedford FFA helped with Meals from the heartland! There has now been over 2.5 million meals packaged by just Iowa FFA members alone since Iowa FFA and Meals from the Heartland team up for this great event!

On Tuesday, member Niah McMillin tested her FFA knowledge in the Greenhand Quiz. She recieved a gold rating!

To top it all off, member Noah Johnson recieved his Iowa FFA Degree (The highest award at the state level) with his Swine/Show Pig Supervised Agricultural Experience.

I am super proud of everything we accomplished this year! I can’t wait for many more great years!

03/15/2021

The following statement comes from the Iowa State Fair:

To best prepare our swine exhibitors, we want to share the following Iowa State Fair swine update: At this time we have exhausted all possibilities and are unable to find a market outlet for swine exhibited at the Iowa State Fair. All swine shows at the 2021 Iowa State Fair will be non-terminal; there will not be any swine loaded out for harvest. The only exception will be for the following which are scheduled to be harvested at the Iowa State University Meat Lab: Grand and Reserve Grand Champion 4-H Market Hog; Grand Champion and Reserve Grand Champion FFA Market Hog. Please plan accordingly for your harvesting needs. More information will be forthcoming along with full entry rules, available April 1.

Iowa State Fair Entry Department [email protected] 515-262-3111 x207.

If you will be showing swine, sheep or goats under FFA this year please get in contact with Mr. Smith by April 1, so that he can order the proper tags you need so you can show.
[email protected]

02/26/2021

On Wednesday, FFA members served brownies and ice cream to all staff in appreciation for all the hard work they have put in during these difficult times of COVID 19. Thank you to all staff for your dedication to the school and all students!

02/24/2021

In honor of National FFA week Bedford FFA members drove their tractors to school for Tractor Tuesday.

02/22/2021

We will be placing a clothing order on Friday for Bedford FFA. You can order T-Shirts, long Sleeve shirt, non-hooded sweat shirt or a hooded sweatshirt.
Orders will be due to Mr. Smith on Friday. The prices are as followed:

T-Shirt: $14
Long Sleeve: $19
Non- Hooded Sweat Shirt: $24
Hooded Sweatshirt: $28

Size 2XL add $1.00 to price
Size 3XL add $2.00 to price

Contact Mr. Smith at [email protected].

02/04/2021

It was a great evening for the Bedford FFA to compete in Sub District contest at East Mills 15 members competed in 5 different contest. Here are the results and highlights of the contest.

Dylan Swaney competed in the Oxy-Fuel Welding contest and earned 1st place with a Gold Rating and will advance to Districts

Tanner Snethen competed in the Arc/Mig Welding contest and received a bronze rating.

Conduct of Meeting consisted off members Amanda Ogle, Conner Nally, Emma Putnam, Silas Walston, Kynlee Kimpson, Tate Rowan, Noah McMillin and Kegan DeMott. They earned a silver rating and will be the alternatives to district contest.

5 Members competed in the Greenhand Quiz. They were Niah McMillin, Silas Walston, Hunter Nourse, Jace Lamb and Hunter Blackford. Niah and Silas received a Gold Rating. Hunter, Jace and Hunter received a silver rating.

2 members competed in the Farm Business Management Test. They were Dawson Stream and Noah Johnson both received a silver rating.

Congratulations to everyone who competed and put in a lot of hard work!