State FFA Convention

The State FFA Convention was held on April 14-21, on the SDSU campus in Brookings. The theme of the convention is, “It’s My Life, It’s Now or Never”. There was expected to be 2,000 FFA members and FFA chapter advisers at the convention.
FFA members were judged in livestock judging, agronomy, dairy foods, agricultural mechanics, agricultural business management, agricultural sales, meat evaluation and, horse evaluation, landscape/nursery, natural resources, floriculture, food science and technology, and dairy cattle judging. The convention sessions was conducted by the State President, Brian Gottlob, State Vice President, Shad Christman, State Secretary, Wyatt DeJong, State Treasurer, Shane Gross, State Reporter, Josh Johnson and State Sentinel, Maria Skoglund.
At the convention they voted for new FFA leaders. The winners are Brady Duxbury as State President, Caitlin Johnson as State Vice President, Jacob Englin as State Secretary, Rebecca Naasz as State Treasurer, Chelsey Abler as State Reporter and Trent Thompson as State Sentinel.
The FFA members from Deuel are Tyler Bjerke, and Travis Harford in agricultural mechanics, Lacey Bolden, Michelle Pederson, and Nicole Pederson in horse evaluation, Ryan Effling, Matt Goens, Clint Koppman Landon Krauce, and Jared Schilling in agricultural business management, Tina Gniffke and Brooke Peterson in dairy foods, Landon Brown and Brian Niemann in Dairy Cattle, Chris Monnier, Jordan Monnier, Anthony Moore, and Lance Hinsuark in livestock judging and Ben White in Floriculture .