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The 2018 Blue and Gold Auction held at the National Farm Machinery Show (NFMS), in Louisville, KY raised $46,313 dollars for the Kentucky FFA Foundation consisting of 14,313 FFA members in 160 FFA Chapters.  The multi-faceted event featured a silent auction available for all 314,000 attendees ...

“Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve.” ~Martin Luther King Jr. How is your chapter Living to Serve? FFA offers Day of Service Mini-Grants for $400 to support chapters in planning community service events. The application is easy, and you can apply for funds to support a one-day s...

Kentucky FFA is looking for 12 outstanding members to lead the Association for the 2018-2019 year.  State Officer Candidates must be at least graduating seniors and either hold or be receiving the State FFA Degree at the 2018 Convention.  The State Officer Candidate Handbook contains complete inf...

In the spirit of giving and supporting the future of American Agriculture BigIron co-founders, Ron and Mark, continually speak of their foundation of their youth on the farm and of the leadership that was instilled in them as FFA members. They have first hand experience of the success that...

The Kentucky FFA Alumni is again sponsoring scholarships for FFA members to attend the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center and the Washington Leadership Conference.   The LTC Scholarships are for $150 each and are offered on the chapter level.  Applications are due February 28.   The WL...

The Kentucky FFA Foundation is giving away up to $10,000 to help FFA members grow or expand their SAE programs!  The Agri-Entrepreneurship Contest is made possible through funds recieved through the Kentucky Agriculture Development Board and the Master Settlement Agreement.   Each chapter winn...

State FFA Degree applications are to be completed and hand delivered to the regional degree evaluation.  Most regions hold the degree evaluation in conjunction with regional paperwork day.  Direct questions about regional degree evaluation to the regional KAAE Chair. State Degree applications ...

American Degree applications must be completed online and the cover page submitted to the Executive Secretary by March 1.  The address for mailing cover pages is: Kentucky FFA 300 Sower Boulevard Frankfort, KY 40601   American Degree applications must be completed online.  Applications...

Sitting in the middle of Kentucky’s second largest city and serving students from nine sending schools, the Locust Trace FFA Chapter is anything but typical. Since most of the chapter’s members don’t have an agriculture background, sharing the story of agriculture has been a huge priority for the...

FFA Members Attack Hunger One Community at a Time With one in six Kentuckians identified as food insecure, hunger is a huge issue facing communities across the state- and across the state local FFA members and chapters are doing their part to eliminate hunger in a variety of ways.  According t...

The State FFA Horse Evaluation Career Development Evant, Horsemanship Event, and Veterinary Science Career Development Event were held at Murray State University on November 15.  The events were coordinated by Murray State University faculty and staff.   In the Horse Evaluation CDE, students e...

Displays of pumpkins, mums, and corn stalks in front of a homes and businesses have become as much a part of fall as pumpkin pie and falling leaves. For Hannah York of Caldwell County FFA, these displays have grown into an award winning business! In 2014, Hannah talked to a few businesses betw...

On Saturday, November 11, over 200 volunteers gatherd at Harrison County Middle School to pack over 16,000 meals for impoverished regions of Haiti.  Volunteers included agriculture students from Harrison County Middle School and Harrison County High School as well as various members of the commun...

The Kentucky FFA Land Judging Career Development Event was held on November 2, 2017 at the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center in Hardinsburg.   The first place team was Rockcastle County FFA.  Team members were Joy Fritth, Tiffany McGuire, Hope Holbrook, and Madison Pride.    Other tea...

Gracie Furnish was elected to serve as the 2017-2018 National FFA Eastern Region Vice President on October 28.  During the coming year, she will travel over 100,000 miles serving as an ambasador for the National FFA Organization and the agriculture industry as a whole.  In addition to attending l...