Washington FFA places third at competition

The Washington FFA Chapter was named the third-place team in the annual Iowa FFA Meats Career Development Event. Members of the team included: Macy Marek, Addie Pacha and Libby Schnicker. Schnicker placed sixth individually and was named High Individual in Beef Quality and Yield Grading. Their coach is Mr. Irv Meier and their agriculture education instructor and FFA advisor is Mr. Duane Van Winkle.

The FFA Meats Evaluation Career Development Event provides an opportunity for FFA members to display their agricultural knowledge and skills in the area of Meat Evaluation. Activities included: placing carcass classes of beef, pork, and lamb; placing classes of wholesale and retail meat cuts; quality and yield grading beef carcasses; identifying retail meat cuts, and a problem-solving activity. There were 87 members participating from 26 chapters.

The Meats Evaluation and Technology Career Development Event was coordinated and conducted by Sherry Olsen and the ISU Meats Judging Team along with the faculty in the Meat Science Department of the Animal Science Department at Iowa State University.