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Show Hogs
To show hogs there are a lot of rules I have to follow again and I have to know each one, especially the minimum and maximum weights that my pigs can be. There are also smaller but still important rules like what times you can feed your animals out during fair, and how many times you have to clean out your pen during fair. Then we have the most important rules that are unwritten like having someone follow you if you are walking your animal to clean up any manure. -
National FFA Convention
During convention my senior year I learned how to better advocate or as we like to call it "agvocate" for agriculture and better communicate the actual things we are doing in the industry. That is a big part of FFA is sharing your story and why you do what you do. -
National Shooting
While out on the line for shooting we have rules we have to follow and understand so that we can limit the cheating that happens on the ranges. We can't have range finders or anything like that to help us determine the yardage we are shooting. We also have to know how many arrows to shoot at each target, some are just one, some have to be shot in a certain order, and some you shoot all of them at once then another person shoots. -
FFA at Washington
When I went to a conference called Washington Leadership Conference in D.C. we traveled and saw a lot of the monuments and how they shaped our country. It was a lot of walking in a corduroy jacket in the middle of June in D.C. was VERY hot so that wasn't very fun but we had awesome food and different songs to help us remember what trains we had to take where to get where we were going. -
Cattle Injections
When I'm giving injections for cattle or hogs I have to know about how much the animal weighs so I can determine how many cc or ml I need for that animal. I also need to know how to put the shot in whether it goes under the skin, in a muscle, in the mouth, in the ear, in the mammary system, (directly into the opening of the teat to treat mastitis) or if it's an oral med. The most important thing is to know how to store it so it stays good otherwise it could hurt the animal. -
Dairy Cleaning
When I'm cleaning the milk pipeline I have to mix up a specific amount of liquid detergent with powered detergent, then in another container I have to put in a specific amount of acid to help clean it too. Don't worry all detergent and acid are washed out of the line before milk even touches it. There are also strict regulations on having any extra water in the milk and any medications. If there are any antibiotics detected the whole tank of milk is dumped down the drain. -
Breeding Cattle
When I'm breeding my cattle I have to have the water as close to 95 degrees as I can and there are certain time constraints I have to work within. When pulling the semen straw out of the liquid nitrogen I only have a few seconds to get it from the liquid to the warm water, from there I have to have it heating up for at lease 45 seconds, while I'm transferring the semen from the water to my gun I have to keep it dark so my little swimmer friends survive. -
Article on FTD
http://www.agriview.com/news/crop/children-s-farm-lessons-livestock-lifestyle/article_8be73e87-41f8-5eaa-a90d-31fb8644aecf.html this is an article that was written about me from one of my favorite reporters for Agriview, Lynn has done another article that I was in and she is planning on another one about me this summer. -
Early days
This is from about 5th grade I don't have a lot of pictures of me reading or anything from elementary school so I only have a couple. The memorable thing about this is that I always keep my cards too long because I feel bad about throwing them away -
early days
This is a map I was looking at I know it's somewhere in Wisconsin but I'm not exactly sure where. I think it's up by the locks. I was in elementary school again here most likely 4th or 5th grade -
Nationals
This picture is from the 2nd year I was at the National Shooting Sports Championships. While there there are a lot of rules we have to follow like for our walk-in. At Nationals we do it Olympic style where each state walks in carrying their state flag with usually a few people carrying it. -
Academic Award
My senior year of high school I received an academic award for improving my GPA by so many points. I of course being a real genius decided I had to hold it upside down to prove how smart I was. -
Senior Banquet
During my senior banquet I received awards based on my involvement in FFA and an co-op program I did that I based on farming. Proving to everyone that I can look like I just got ran over by a cow but still clean up nice. -
State Convention
This is when I was receiving a scholarship for receiving my State Degree in FFA. I've had to fill out more applications than I can count over my 5 years in FFA and they haven't stopped I have at least two more I have to fill out for this convention year. Especially with deciding to run for State Office again. -
Calf care
When I'm tubing a calf to get the milk or medicine right into the stomach of the calf I have to listen for specific sounds to know where I am whether I'm in the stomach or the lungs. When we are tubing the last place we want to be is the lungs because it can pretty much drown the calf so I have to make sure I am listening for breathing and mooing so I know where I am. -
Wisconsin Farm Technology Days Committee
This past year I was on the Youth committee for Farm Technology Days in Walworth County. I worked with this group for over 2 years planning what we were going to do. I was the youngest but everyone looked up to me since I had so many different ideas and different ways to do things than what they had thought of.
