Vandalia FFA Chapter

08/21/2026

Who needs a fun family friendly night out!?
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We're hosting our 5th Annual Community Grill n Chill Event! Not only will there be a free meal provided by the Alumni & membership, but we will also have 2 food trucks!
🍨 The Green Creamery, LLC
🥔The Baked Tater

Per tradition, there will be games for all ages, music, & community fellowship to enjoy!

Mark your calendars 🗓 for Wednesday, Sept. 2nd!

06/29/2026

The Vandalia High School agriculture program has been chosen as one of eight schools across four states to rec...

06/15/2026

The students & animals had a great day at the Vandalia, Illinois Farmers' Market this past Saturday!
Kasey & Kyle Clanton brought their cows for "Dairy Day"!

06/13/2026

Our Officer Retreat was June 1st & 2nd at Shelbyville.

The Officer Retreat is a one of the most important events of the year because this is when our yearly event planning is done & when we set yearly/individual goals.
However, this event is also about team development. A well oiled team can get a lot done in a more efficient way.

1st Day: Fishing & Swimming on the Lake
-Jase Rosenberger & Gunnar Major fried fish for dinner

2nd Day: Fished at the Spillway and had pizza from Monicals

06/13/2026

State Convention Part 2:

The students enjoyed Malibu Jacks, Our Delegates for the State Officer voting session were Kasey Clanton & Marcus Benning.
Today they are at the Farmers Market!
Stay tuned for pictures!

06/10/2026

State Convention Part 1:

1. National Chapter Silver Award 🥈

2. State SAE Winner: Kasey Clanton in Dairy Entrepreneurship 🥇
-Section, District, & State Winner

3. State Degree Recipient: Bryce Hartlieb 🥇
-Only 2% of the membership receives this Degree.

More pictures to come! 💙💛💙💛

05/22/2026

One of our projects is renovating the okaw garden into a butterfly/habitat garden and the kids had a project to make bird houses for it.
We think they did a great job!

05/20/2026

Congratulations Bryce Hartlieb!

Our second scholarship recipient this week is Bryce Hartlieb. Hartlieb is the son of Dennis & Annette Hartlieb of Vandalia, IL. Hartlieb is a 2026 graduate of Vandalia Community High School and plans to attend Millikin University this fall with hopes of studying Ag Business to ultimately enter the chemical sales business. Congratulations Bryce!
For more information on the Fayette County Farm Bureau Foundation, please visit www.fayettefb.com/foundation

05/08/2026

As this past year comes to a close- we have one more exciting accomplishment to announce. 🎉

Our Chapter received a silver 🥈 recognition within the National Chapter Award in all area's!

This is a huge accomplishment as this award measures how active & impactful the Chapter is (regardless of competition success) throughout the year. The three area's that are judged upon are 1) Building Communities 2) Strengthening Agriculture & 3) Growing Leaders. The Chapter will receive this award at this year's State Convention.

Achieving this level of recognition has been one of our big picture goals and we couldnt have done it without the community support & student involvement! A special congratulations goes out to this past years officer teams for their planning & follow through while juggling FFA contests amongst their other responsibilities.
Your prioritization & hard work has paid off!

05/05/2026

FFA Rewards Day!

At the end of every year the active members that have earned enough FFA points throughout the year are rewarded with a Reward Day.
This gives students an incentive to work towards throughout the year, especially if they want to be more active in Chapter events versus Chapter competitions.

This year the students competed in a bags tournament, played paintball or went to the golf simulators.

Tomorrow they have their FFA Banquet to finish out the school year's FFA activities!