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Show Ei ft SKIS February 20, 1985 - The Springville Herald - Page Seven , I I The FFA Livestock Judging Team for SHS are; Robert Peay, Chris Fackrell, Andrea Weight and Tiffany Palmer. Tiffany placed 2nd at the Snow College Field Days and 1st place at the Utah Junior Hereford Days. Students are expected to be proficient in the selection of breeding beef, market beef, breeding sheep, market sheep, breeding hogs and fat hogs. The FFA Meat Judging Team are from left, Tiffany Palmer, Michelle Allan, Keri Allan and LaDawn Willson. These four students are studying to become a proficient Meat Judging Team. They are required to exhibit skills in meat identification of retail cuts, of wholesale cuts, quality grades of meat and yield grades of beef carcasses. The FFA Land Judging Team for 1985-85 are front: Cy Averett, Advisor, Loren J. Phillips and Paul Houtz. Back: Chad Warren, Jim Gabbitas and Rick Weight. The FFA Land Judging Team placed 3rd at the State FFA Contest held last October at Snow College. Students are required to list management practices on four different sites of land. The State FFA Farmer Degrees for 1985 were earned by Robert Peay, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Peay; Rick Weight, son of Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Weight and Tiffany Palmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Palmer. Robert Rick and Tiffany will receive the State Farmer Degree at the State FFA Convention to be held at BYU on March 29, 1985. These students have earned in excess of $500 from their Vocational Agrticulture Projects Robert has horses and beef for his project. Rick has been working work-ing on Farm Placement for Palfreyman Land and Livestock. Tiffany raised top quality purebred pigs. lrMS. JO.wffieV" ...... KEEP AGRICULTURE 1 ! Agriculture is America's number one industry and feeds half the world To insure our future as a world leader, our strength and sustenance will have to come lrom the land and the young people who will protect and manage it. Young people in high school today will be tomorrow's leaders The future is in their hands. Keep agriculture 1 -support vocational agriculture and the FFA1 (AGRICULTURE) .71 I a February 18 through the 23 is National Future Farmers of America Week and the Springville Chapter of the FFA is celebrating it. The theme for the week is "Keep Agriculture No. 1". Agriculture is America's number one industry and feeds half the world. America's future as a world leader will come from the land and the young people who will protect and manage it. The young people in high school today will be tomorrow's leaders and agriculture is a career where young people can make a difference and work with the latest sophisticated technology. The future is in their hands and that is why the theme of FFA Week is "Keep America No. 1". The Future Fanners of America organization is based on leadership, citizenship, character, scholarship, improved agriculture, cooperation, service, thrift, patriotism and recreation. Their motto is, "Learning "Lear-ning to do, doing to learn, earning to live and living to serve". FFA is a national organization for FFA Creed I believe in the future of farming, with a faith born not of words but of deeds-achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years. I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuit, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny. I believe in leadership from ourselves and respect from others. I believe in my own ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability to work efficiently and think clearly, with such knowledge and skill as I can secure, and in the ability of progressive agriculturists to serve our own and the public interest in producing and marketing the product of our toil. I believe in less dependence on begging and more power in bargaining; in the life abundant and enough honest wea 1th to help make it so-for others as well as myself; in less need for charity and more of it when needed; in being happy myself and playing square with those whose happiness depends upon me. I believe that rural America can and will hold true to the best traditions of our national life and that I can exert an influence in my home and community which will stand solid for my part in that inspiring in-spiring task. Former resident receives Young Farmer Award William Kelly Tuttle, a young farmer from Holden who grew up in Springville, and a member of the East Millard Young Farmer Chapter, was honored as the Utah Young Farmer of the Year at the annual convention of the Utah Young Farmer Association held at the Holiday Inn in Salt Lake City Jan. 18-19. The award, which consisted of a check in the amount of $300 from the Intermountain Farmers Assoc. and a beautiful plaque from the First Security Bank, was presented at the awards banquet Friday evening. Each Young Farmer Chapter in the state had the opportunity to submit an applicant and the selection was made on the type of farming, management, and involvement in community and farm activities. Kelly, with his brother, Ken, are partners in the operation of 640 acres west of Holden in the Greenwood area. The entire acreage is presently in the production of alfalfa. However, in recent years, they have raised wheat, barley, dry beans, certified small grain seed, and corn for grain. They also lease or do custom work on an additional 130 to 400 acres annually and are involved in general commodity trucking, custom hay harvesting and trucking, and sales of irrigation systems. Farm improvements on the 640 acres have been very extensive over the past five years, including such items as field bindweed control, drilling a new well, home and farm beautification, planting 560 trees, road construction and improvement, and the installation of underground irrigation pipe, electrical cable, and neutron probe holes. With the latest developments in the production and marketing of crops and have adapted many new and approved farm practices in recent years. For example, they utilize soil testing, soil biopsy, and plant tissue testing procedures to determine plant nutrient availability and utilization of essential elements. Alfalfa production is monitored carefully through the growing season and harvesting is done to insure hightest protein, total' digestible nutrients, and feed value. Their hay is analized and sold on quality as well as tonnage. The most students enrolled in Vocational Agriculture at the high school. FFA provides the awards and incentive for those students preparing for careers in the agriculture industry. Agriculture is number one in the world today because of its investment in-vestment in youth and education. The Springville chapter is very active and through the years has trained hundreds of young people. The Vocational Agriculture Departmental SHS is headed by Mr. Loren Phillips. The FFA Area contest will be held at the Springville High School on March 4. They will host the FFA Chapters from Payson, Spanish Fork, Provo and Orem. FFA members will be competing in the following competitions to go on to the State FFA Contests to be held at B Y U. at the State FFA Convention Con-vention on March 29, Prepared Public Speaking, Extemporanious Public Speaking, B.O.A.C. Awards Contest, Parliamentary Procedures Contest, Star Productions, Record Books, Star Greenhand, Proficiency Awards and Creed Contest. The FFA Springville High School Chapter Officers for 1984-1985 are: front: Robert Peay, Sentinel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Peay, LaDawn Willson, Reporter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Willson and Tiffany Palmer, Vice-President, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. The FFA Creed Contestants from the Springville Junior High School enrolled in the FFA Club are front: Nichole Phillips, Stacy Stansfield and Brent Bartholomew. Bar-tholomew. Back: Greg Miner, Nannette Neff and Jody important tool in their management program is the computer which is used daily. Kelly has been very active in community, church, and agricultural organizations. He is presently Secretary of the East Millard Young Farmer Chapter, a member of the Holden Town Council, and is President of the Mr I U LJ 1 ' ESteMiMM Denise and Kelly Tuttle display a plaque and check they received for being be-ing named Utah's Young Farmer of the Year 1985. Kelly grew up in Springville Spr-ingville and now farms in Holden. I . , . I Fillmore Utah Stake Mission. He represented the Local Young Farmer Chapter in state public speaking competition in 1981, was the East Millard Y'oung Farmer of the Year in 1984, and was first runner-up in the Utah Farm Bureau Young Farmer Rancher competition in 1983. He has been instrumental in organizing several farm J Bruce Palmer. Back: Chris Fackrell, President, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maylon Fackrell, Jim Gabbitas, Gab-bitas, Treasurer, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Gabbitas and Keri Allan, Secretary, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Doug Allan. Stika. First year students in the FFA are encouraged to participate in the FFA Creed Contest. They are required re-quired to recite the creed by memory and answer questions concerning the creed. organizations, such as the Utah Hay Growers Association and the East Millard Irrigation Scheduling Association. Kelly and his wife, Denise, reside in Holden with their four children, Tyler, Tanis, Marci. and Richard. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Tuttle, also of Holden. l) First Security Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation |