Month: February 2024

Lakeside Middle makes weekly sales to a local catering company. This week we harvested bags full of collards, arugula, broccoli and lettuce. This consistent income has helped fund our program and allowed our students to see the impact of their hard work. This partnership has also helped our agriculture program become more visible in our community and given our students a sense of pride in their work.

South Carolina State Staff, along with two high school agricultural educators, visited the North Carolina John Deere Gator Wars Region Contest in Salisbury, NC. The group from South Carolina observed the set up of the contest as well as the NC FFA Students competing in the competition. The NCFFA members participated in rotations consisting of electricity, hydraulics, equipment identification and part installation. 

The John Deere Gator Wars is scheduled to start in South Carolina in the Fall of 2024.

The 75th annual SC Farmer & Agribusiness Association Convention was recently held at the Madren Conference Center in Clemson.  Attendees visited with sponsors representing all aspects of the agricultural industry, as well as had the opportunity to attend 12 different continuing education workshops.  Evening entertainment included the Palmetto Cadillacs Band, as well as the spirited live auction, benefitting college scholarships for students majoring in Agriculture.

Over 100 Greenhand FFA members from around the state, flooded the FFA Leadership Center over the weekend of February 8-11. The Greenhand’s participated in hands on workshops with the State FFA Officers, competed in six mock CDE’s and hosted a banquet.

The Greenhand’s also spent time at Wonder Works, playing dodgeball and making s’mores by the fire.

Pendleton FFA Biosystems students created Valentine card highlighting information they have been studying about: botanical terminology for fruits.