Local Chapter Celebrating National FFA Week

This week is National FFA Week. It’s a national observance and each individual chapter finds its own ways to celebrate.

The FFA students at Litchfield High School had a trivia event for Middle School students on Monday, wrote thank you notes to their sponsors yesterday, are wearing their FFA shirts today, will host a breakfast for staff at their school tomorrow, and will have a cook-out for their chapter members on Friday.

Litchfield High School Junior Emmett VanDerBill, who is the LHS FFA Chapter President, says he’s on the crops team and they are practicing to compete at the state convention in April. He says he lives in town, but his family operates a farm west of Litchfield, and he’s planning to learn the electrician trade after finishing high school – at Ridgewater College.

VanDerBill says members of the Litchfield FFA Chapter help at the Moo Booth at the Meeker County Fair each summer. Litchfield FFA Vice President Bianca Forsberg says working at the booth helps to raise funds for the Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee of which many of the FFA students are involved. The Litchfield High School Junior says she’s planning to become an ag teacher after high school, and she’s getting some practice as she and Des Polzin have been teaming up on a project to teach ag education.

Forsberg says she lives in Darwin, not on a farm, but FFA teaches more than ag-related topics such as leadership and life skills.