ARCANUM – Arcanum MVCTC FFA members recently competed in the Ohio FFA Farm and Agribusiness Management Contest. The team from Arcanum placed 1st overall in the State out of 104 schools and qualified to compete in the National Contest during the National FFA Convention in October.
The top-scoring members were Charlie Weiss (1st Overall), Katelynne Michael (2nd Overall), Landon Miller, Ethan Hartman, Lance Brinksneader and Seth Fearon. The purpose of the Farm Business Management Contest is to provide students with the opportunity to make a practical application of the knowledge and skills learned in the production agriculture curriculum in solving typical farm management problems.
The online written test is designed to test the team members’ understanding of economic principles in farm business management. The problem-solving portion of the CDE is designed to determine the team members’ ability to apply economic principles of farm business management to actual problems and to define the decisions that need to be made.
Team member Katelynne Michael shared… “We finished 2nd in the State last year and were able to compete, and win, the Big E contest. We really worked hard this year to move up into that 1st place spot so that we could go to the National Contest.”