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Twelve FFA members from across the Commonwealth were elected to lead Kentucky FFA on Thursday, June 11 in Lexington.  The 2015-2016 State FFA Officers are: President- Wesley Estes- Logan County Vice President- James Kash- Lee County Secretary- Rachel Hinton- Taylor County Treasurer- T...

The 86th Kentucky FFA State Convention was held in Lexington June 9-11. Just over 2600 people attended the Convention nearly tying the all time record attendance figure that was set in 2014 according to preliminary attendance figures. The Convention included state contest finals, leadership...

The Kentucky FFA Foundation is proud to announce the 2015 Agri-entrepreneurship Contest.  This program is made possible through Kentucky FFA Foundation Project LEAD, which was funded by the Kentucky Agriculture Development Board in 2002.  Since that time, this program has provided over $100,000 t...

The State Forestry Career Development Event was held April 30 at Green River Lake State Park in Campbellsville. Whitley County FFA was the winning team.  Team members were Cheyenne Gibson, Cody Wells, Lowell Carter, and Aaron Ellis.  The team was coached by Advisor Glen Croley.  They will repr...

The Kentucky Department of Agriculture will once again be sponsoring the KDA Farmers Market Contest for FFA members. Click here to view complete details of the contest. Click here to download the application.   Applications are due May 20th and should be mailed to: Matt Chaliff, Ex...

FFA foundations in Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee will split a $100,000 funding boost to help them serve young people in agriculture.   LOUISVILLE, Ky. (February 10, 2015) — FFA has received the highest number of online votes to win the Farm Credit Mid-America 299 Ways to Say Thanks ...

Kentucky FFA is looking for 12 outstanding members to lead the Association for the 2015-2016 year.  State Officer Candidates must be at least graduating seniors and either hold or be receiving the State FFA Degree at the 2015 Convention.  The State Officer Candidate Handbook contains complete inf...

State FFA Degree applications must be completed online through AET.  To access the application a student should follow these steps: Go to www.theaet.com and login using information provided by the Advisor Click on the “Reports” tab Click on “Degree and Application Manager” Go to “Add New...

American Degree applications are due March 1, 2015.  These applications must be completed online through either AET or the Ag Career Network. To access the application through AET: Go to www.theaet.com and login using information provided by the Advisor Click on the “Reports” tab Click ...

The State Horse Judging and Veterinary Science Career Development Events were held November 19 at Murray State University. The top teams in Horse Judging were: 3rd Place- Graves County 2nd Place- Montgomery County 1st Place- Mercer County Members of the winning team from Mercer Cou...

The 2014 State Land Judging Career Development Event was held Thursday, November 6th in Hardinsburg.  Twenty two chapters from across the state competed for the state title and the chance to advance to the National Land Judging Contest in Oklahoma City in 2015. Cumberland County FFA was the wi...

The 212° Conference (formerly Made For Excellence) has been scheduled for January 30-31 at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond. Thanks to Dr. John Settimi, Dr. Mike McDermott, and the EKU Agriculture Department for their continued support of this program. Registration will begin at 12:30 p...

Kentucky FFA was well represented at the 87th Annual National FFA Convention, which was held October 29- November 1 in Louisville. An all-time record of 64,409 FFA members from across the United States attended the Convention, which is the largest youth organization gathering in the United States...

Louisville- Brandon K. Davis of Kentucky was named the Outstanding Young Member of the National Association of Supervisors of Agricultural Education at the organization’s annual convention. Davis is an Agricultural Education Consultant in the Kentucky Department of Education and serves as the Ken...