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Kentucky FFA was well represented at the 88th Annual National FFA Convention, which was held October 28- 31 in Louisville.  An all-time record of 65,173 FFA members from across the United States attended the Convention, which is the largest youth organization gathering in the United States. Ru...

The Kentucky FFA Livestock Grant program is open to all freshman and sophomore FFA members who wish to establish or expand a livestock based Supervised Agricultural Experience program. Complete guidelines are contained in the Application which is due December 1. The Livestock Grant program ...

The Kentucky Association for Career and Technical Education has announced details about the 2015-2016 Entrepreneurship Event.  This program is designed to recognize high school students who have outstanding entrepreneurial businesses- which includes many FFA members. To enter, a member complet...

During the Rising Sun Conference (September 18-19) the State FFA Officers introduced a new membership campaign known as #giveme5 The State Officers have set a goal of increasing state wide FFA membership to 15,000 for the 2015-2016 school year.  To accomplish this goal, each chapter in the sta...

Several Career Development Events were held at the Kentucky State Fair on August 20-21, 2015.  Thanks to all the advisors, volunteers, and State Fair staff who made these events possible.  Click below to review results for each of these Career Development Events.  The Podium Winners List includes...

National FFA release the list of finalists in Proficiency contests, Agriscience Fair, and the National Chapter Contest earlier this week.  As usual, Kentucky was well represented. Six Kentucky FFA members were named as National Finalists in their respective Proficiency contests.  These include...

Kentucky was well represented in National FFA Paperwork Judging which was completed in July.  This year our Association had one National Star finalist, six national Proficiency finalists, ten Agriscience Fair finalists, and two finalists for National Chapter Awards. Terry Napier of Madison Sou...

The first ever Rising Sun Conference will be held September 18-19 at the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center in Hardinsburg.  The objective of the conference is to build a strong, grassroots foundation among all chapters in the state by bringing representatives from all chapters together to d...

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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 ...