Nebraska FFA Foundation
Congratulations to Ms. Armstrong on being resented with the Gary Scharf Helping Hand Award at the third session for Nebraska State FFA Convention. This award recognizes an agriculture educator who has gone above and beyond to serve their . . .
State FFA 2025
While Maywood's FFA team traveled to Lincoln for State FFA our students had many accomplishments. At the National State FFA Convention. Ryan Werkmeister, Kassidy Hatfield, Taren Sailor, Maddie Merritt, Blayklee Farr, Dallas Grunden, and . . .
Taking a notch out of Farm Safety Day
Maywood's FFA students had a busy few weeks! Members of the large animal management classes presented a session on ear tagging and ear notching at Farm Safety Day. We were able to meet with our FFA buddies last week and learn how to tag . . .
District CDE #2
Maywood’s FFA group had a great day at NCTA for their district contest and got a few teams qualified for state! Here are the Results: Ag Mechanics Team 1-District Champions! Purple - State . . .
Nebraska State FFA Degrees
February 5th, Kassidy Hatfield, Dallas Grunden, Maddie Merritt, Reagan Stengel, Blayklee Farr, Taren Sailor, and Ryan Werkmeister interviewed for their Nebraska State FFA Degrees in McCook. While their applications still have to be . . .
Animal Management!
It was a busy short week for the Animal Management class. On Tuesday, January 21st the Large Animal Management class dissected a reproductive tract from a sow (thank you to the Gerlach's for your donation). Thursday, January 23rd the . . .
District LDE's #2!
Maywoods FFA students went to the second district LDE's on Tuesday, December 10th. They all had a very exciting day! Here are the results: Ag Demonstration - 3rd place purple, qualifying for state in April. Members . . .
District Leadership Development Events!
November always brings an exciting time of year for our FFA members. The first round of contests happen and we wrap up our annual fruit and snack sales. We had three members attend our first round of district Leadership Development . . .
National FFA Convention
Maywood's FFA group went to the National FFA Convention in Indtanapolis on October 23rd through the 26th. October 23rd the group attended the opening session and spent the day exploring the convention and FFA expo! On the 26th . . .
Biglron's Husker Harvest Days!
Congratulations to the Maywood FFA team for being drawn as one of several donations from Biglron's Husker Harvest Days Competition. FFA members also received Biglron winter hats. Congratulations to you all, keep up the good work!
Land Judging
Wednesday, October 2nd was a great day to look at some land! The Maywood FFA land judgers headed to Minden to compete at the area contest. Lots of great learning was had on a tough site. The results were as following: . . .
Trash Pickup Day!
On Sunday, September 29th a small but mighty group of students from Maywood's FFA group went around Maywood and along the highway to pickup trash! They also went to the community hall to help rearrange chairs! Thank you to everyone . . .
Maywood Ag Ed And FFA News
The Summer of 2024 was a busy one for they Maywood Public School FFA members. Many members worked on various SAE projects and showcased their hard work at our area county fairs. Members participated in trash clean up at Wellfleet . . .
Connecting Chapters!
We had a great morning hosting the Connecting Chapters training with Nebraska Farm Bureau. FFA members from Medicine Valley, North Platte, and Wallace joined our freshman and were given the opportunity to learn and present 5 different Ag in . . .
FFA Districts
On March 5th the Maywood FFA Chapter went to NCTA in curtis to compete in the Spring CDE's. There was lots of great learning experiences and lots of new CDE's for many of Maywood's FFA members! Here are the results: . . .
Activities of Maywood Ag Ed / FFA
Friday, December 8th, 2023 was a busy day for the Maywood Ag Ed department and FFA! They stated off the day in the 1st grade classroom by reading "Night Tree". After their book they made bagel bird feeders, and strung popcorn. The . . .
State FFA Convention
Day 1 of the 96th Nebraska FFA Convention: (April 3rd) Kassidy Hatfield and Dallas Grunden presented their cooperative speeches. The Ag Demo Team (Gage Gerlach, Jerry Ingison, Haydn Farr, Jaxson Anders) rocked their sausage making . . .