Kimball Panhandle FFA Capital For A Day

Students from across the Panhandle attended the District 12 FFA contest in Kimball on Wednesday. Over 180 students from 20 different schools participated in various competitions, including Meat Judging, Livestock Judging, Biotechnology, Nursery/Landscaping, AgriScience, and Agronomy.

First-year teacher Kortni Burnett brought 15 students from Bridgeport. She would have had an additional 20 students, but the Bridgeport basketball team made it to State and those other 20 students went to Lincoln for the tournament.

Kimball FFA had six students participate in the District contest. Grace Anderson, Alycia Vrbas, Landon Norberg, Julia Winstrom, Cody Brinkman and Hayden Sours participated in Meat Judging. Meat Judging includes taking a written test of 20 questions, judging cuts of meat on a slide show, then looking at the real thing and ranking those cuts of meat.

Hemingford Meats brought pork chops, T-bones, pork loins, and short loins for the more than 60 students to judge. Students can only participate in one contest for Career Development Experience at the District level.

According to Morrill-Mitchell FFA adviser Krystal Wilke, the State Convention will be held virtually this year.

"All contests will take place virtually during the last two weeks of March, with results being announced during the week of convention," she said.

Here are the District results:

Junior Livestock Judging - Team Results

**Top 5 Teams advance to state** (Many of the bottom teams didn't have a full 4 kids compete)

1st - Alliance

2nd - Sioux County

3rd - Chadron

4th - Hay Springs

5th - Scottsbluff

6th - Gering

7th - Gordon-Rushville

8th - Bayard

9th - Garden County

10th - Hemingford

11th - Banner County

Junior Livestock Judging - Individual Results

42nd - Wyatt Reichenberg (Banner County)

45th - Marie Hein (Banner County)

Senior Livestock Judging - Team Results

**Top 5 teams advance to state**  (Many of the bottom teams didn't have a full 4 kids compete)

1st - Alliance

2nd - Morrill-Mitchell

3rd - Sidney

4th - Chadron

5th - Hay Springs

6th - Gering

7th - Gordon-Rushville

8th - Crawford

9th - Leyton

10th - Sioux County

11th - Bridgeport

12th - Scottsbluff

13th - Banner County

14th - Bayard

15th - Garden County

16th - Potter Dix

Senior Livestock Judging - Individual Results

24th - Macee McConkey (Banner County)

49th - Luke Kasten (Potter-Dix)

52nd - Helen Hein (Banner County)

Agronomy - Team Results

**This is not a "qualifying" contest, any team can chose to participate at state**

1st - Alliance

2nd - Morrill-Mitchell

3rd - Sidney

4th - Creek Valley

5th - Gordon-Rushville

6th - Sioux County

7th - Hay Springs

8th - Hemingford ronomy..

Agriscience - Team Results

**This is not a "qualifying" contest, any team can choose to participate at state. This is a first-year member contest, so is primarily for freshmen students. The event at Kimball is just a practice for those wishing to go to state in this area**

1st - Hay Springs 1

2nd - Chadron

3rd - Hay Springs 2

4th - Bridgeport

5th - Crawford

Ag Biotechnology - Team Results

**The top 2 teams advance to state**

1st - Chadron

2nd - Gordon-Rushville 

3rd - Sioux County

Meat Judging - Team Results

**This is not a "qualifying" contest, any team can choose to participate at state.**

1st - Gordon-Rushville

2nd - Minatare

3rd- Bridgeport

4th - Bayard 

5th - Banner County

6th - Creek Valley

7th - Kimball

8th - Alliance 

9th - Chadron

10th - Sidney

11th - Sioux County

12th - Hay Springs

13th - Morrill-Mitchell

14th - Potter Dix

Meat Judging - Individual Results

18th - Makyla Mason (Banner County)

20th - Adam Knaub (Banner County)

22nd - Alex Rundell (Banner County)

24th - Julia Winstrom (Kimball)

25th - Alycia Vrbas (Kimball)

29th - Kailey Nicklas (Potter-Dix)

38th - Grace Anderson (Kimball)

39th - Cody Brinkman (Kimball)

40th - Landon Norberg (Kimball)

50th - Jacob Parsons (Banner County)

Nursery/Landscape - Team Results

**Top 4 teams advance to state**

1st - Scottsbluff

2nd - Bayard

3rd - Hay Springs

4th - Minatare

5th - Chadron

6th - Crawford

7th - Morrill-Mitchell