Poplar Bluff FFA

Congrats on earning your Missouri State FFA degree Tristin Hill and Brendan Yarbro

Congrats class of 2021 Floriculture class students did great job helping with graduation flower.

Some projects we have been doing in our Ag classes lately

Thanks Toni Stoner for sharing pictures and decorating for banquet

Look for us tomorrow and Thursday for our drive by Mother’s Day specials! We will have plants and mixed planters outside the greenhouse for purchase just in time for Mother’s Day!

Reminder tomorrow is LAST day to RSVP for our chapter FFA Banquet! https://drive.google.com//0B84eJR9oieL-cTZCeXo3dXRVT/view

Ag Science I classes finished bird houses just in time! Love how these classes came together to help each other finish in time! We have a wonderful group

Ag Science I students have been enjoying some hands on shop time! We have been working on building bird house more pictures to come

FFA and FBLA teamed up to adopt a family for Christmas Promise

We have created our own google site for our Agriculture Education Department. We hope to keep it updated throughout the year for parents, members, and supporters. Keep checking back for more items posted and updated on our website. We are excited and ready for school! https://sites.google.com/pb.k12.mo.us/pbhsag/home

FFA enjoyed helping with Santa Land tonight. Proud of these kids they never complained and jumped in happy to help

FFA students helping set up Santa Land tonight (they took mask off just for pictures) we are so excited to help tomorrow with this wonderful community event

Terrariums in floriculture class

Bud vase arrangements in floriculture class. Nice to see kids enjoying a hands on project it’s been a while with everything going on.

Check out a video featuring Mrs Clark’s family and one of our FFA chapter charter member.

Beautiful day at the FFA area trapshoot. 1st place squad 1st place high individual Austin Stoner 2nd place high individual Trenton Patterson 1st high female- Abby Prewitt ... 2nd high female- Kenna Mills See more

We had the sweetest little visitor today in class. Thanks to our FFA officer Tanner Robinson for bringing your bottle calf

Landscape class have been maintaining the planters in front of the stadium.

Pumpkin mum projects for floriculture and landscaping class today! Beautiful day to be outside with this great group of kids.

Great morning listening to our FFA officer, Colin Lamberson speak at FCA! We are very proud of him.

Thanks for supporting our FFA! Keaton Carrs Lawn Service Poplar Bluff Realty, Inc Foxtrot Coffee

We still have mums available to purchase! We are open for drive up purchases tomorrow from 3:15-till gone at the high school greenhouse. 1 for $15 or 2 for $25. Just cracking to show colors to make them last all fall

Our chapter is teaming up with Open Hearts to help make some people's lives more enjoyable. Open Hearts will have some men who will be headed to Lake Charles, LA on September 28 to October 1st. They are going to set up a church and cook food for a couple of days for families and workers who are there to clean-up after the hurricane. Our FFA members are going to be collecting non-perishable items to help with the meals that they will be cooking and other items that can be ...passed out to families in that community. Below is a list of items that we are looking for, but not limited too. If you would rather make a monetary donation, our FFA members can buy the items and help get these sent to Open Hearts. -Styrofoam to go trays -Individually wrapped snack cakes -small packages of chips -Mustard -Ketchup -Mayonnaise -Water -Gatorade -Any type of individually wrapped food that can be distributed with the meal -Napkins -Non melting candy, that can be given to children in the families -Anything else that you want to donate that is non-perishable that will help these families. If you have items you can bring by the high school and leave at the front office or drop them off when you purchase/pick up mums next week. Our FFA members just want to make a positive difference in the lives of other people and this is one of the ways that they will do this. If you have any more questions, you can contact Mrs. Clark or Mr. Lackey We will be collecting items till September 27th!

Our Floriculture class annual Mum advertisement assignment voting! Please vote for your favorite advertisement. The student with the most likes on their picture wins a mum! We are still taking preorders through this weekend! https://forms.gle/vGYxKQv1ALJt8tLt8

Attention past Ag graduates who are Ag majors!! Apply!!!

Lackeys Ag 2 class working on team building skills today in class!

Pictures of the mums in full bloom. When we recieve them they will just start to open up so you will get to enjoy the color throughout fall! You can preorder on this google form: https://forms.gle/T9eH75vwg7TbKhVA7

FALL is around the corner! We will have our FFA mums ready to go the end of September. Mum Colors: yellow, red, white, bronze, and purple that are larger than last year. Our price this year is one for $15 or two for $25. ... Attention business if you order 6 or more mums we would love to deliver them and take our picture with your business as a thank you to post on our facebook page! We are taking community pre-orders till September 11th. Order here: https://forms.gle/T9eH75vwg7TbKhVA7 PB District staff emails will be going out next week for preorder for delivery at the different PB campuses.

Excited for this school year and to announce our 2020-2021 FFA Chapter Officers: President- Audrie Sievers VP- Tanner Robinson Secretary- Austin Stoner Sentinel- Collin Lamberson... We will have a fall FFA election to fill the treasurer and reporter position. Thank you to our judges who helped with this process.

Our chapter is in search of a blow-up movie screen to borrow this fall. With our National FFA Convention and leadership training being held virtually we would like to encourage more kids to participate by hosting them in a drive-in like atmosphere or to be able to set it up on a field. Thanks!

Started our virtual field trip video lessons this morning! Thanks to Lowery Acres for showing us your cut flowers, sunflowers, pumpkins, and vegetables operation. Check out their Facebook page and look for them at our local farmers markets!

Might be good opportunity for past graduates.

With looking at adding more virtual lessons this year we are looking for some help. We would like to make some short videos of agriculture in our community. We think this would help motivate kids to learn better virtual. Mrs Clark is going out this week to get some row crop videos at her farm but needing much more. We teach large and small animal, forestry, greenhouse, landscape, floriculture, welding, woodworking, etc. We would love to get video of someone working cattle, working with bees, hogs, chickens, larger gardens, aquaculture, mum production, etc. Thanks for your help!

Mr. Lackey and Mrs. Clark are trying to work on getting our FFA chapter back on track! --We will be switching up our officer election process to be more virtual. We would like to have our officer slate ready to go when we come back to school. We have sent out a remind and had some replies back but if you are interested in running please let us know ASAP. --We would like to start scheduling SAE visits. If you have a summer job, project, or activity please let us know so we can come and visit. We have been in contact with some students but wasn't able to get everyone's info before the wellness break. We truly miss our FFA family. Stay safe and well!

Sad to not be able to attend national convention but glad to be able to share it with more students virtually.

Our Missouri native garden in the back of school has lots of monarch eggs and caterpillar on the milkweed

We are very proud of our FFA President- Carlee Ringstaff Favorite FFA Memory- Going to state fair with the area officer team. Accomplishments- Chapter President, Area Reporter. Future plans- Going to Missouri State University to major in either secondary education or Anthropology ... She has done an outstanding job serving in our area and chapter office.

Tune in for our FFA State Virtual Convention

2020 FFA Senior- Ms Holley Alford FFA favorite memory: Having cornhole tournaments and decorating the christmas parade float. FFA accomplishments: Competing in horse CDE and fall public speaking. ... Future Plans: Attending Three Rivers for AA in agriculture, competing on TRC rodeo team, then transferring to CMU for a bachelors in Agribusiness while competing on CMU rodeo team.

Our 2020 senior of the day is- Ms Alyssa Sisson Favorite FFA memory: Going to SEMO fair with some of my closest friends or studying daily for CDEs... FFA accomplishments: Chapter Secretary 18-19, District second place Nursery and Landscape CDE 17-18, District second place Floriculture CDE 18-19. Future Plans: Go to college to either be a nurse practitioner or an ag teacher I love FFA

To celebrate our Class of 2020 graduates we will try and feature them leading up to graduation! Today’s spotlight: Mr Colton Worley Favorite FFA Memory: getting to do the flowers for the top 30 banquet ... Accomplishments: Chapter Vice President, going to state for floriculture and dairy foods CDE teams, first in area for turf grass management and diverse horticulture proficiency award. Future plans: Colton will be attending Mizzou in the fall working towards becoming a floral designer or wholesale florist. Congrats Colton Worley!!

Happy Mother’s Day to our awesome FFA Mothers!

Congrats Tanner Robinson on being named Area 16 FFA Star Farmer!

Local FFA member receives state's highest FFA honor Tanner Robinson of Poplar Bluff FFA has received the State FFA Degree, the highest degree members can receive at state level. The Poplar Bluff member is one of a record 988 degree recipients receiving the honor. The list of recipients was released the week of April 20. Prior to 2020, the number of recipients was limited to 3 percent of the Missouri FFA Association members. Now earning the degree is based on minimum specific... qualifications. "Missouri FFA members have always considered earning the State FFA Degree an honor, said Missouri FFA Association Advisor Leon Busdieker. Instead of limiting the number of individuals eligible to earn the degree, the Missouri FFA Association has established a minimum set of qualifications, increasing the number of recipients. This gives students a more defined path to the recognition." Awarding of the degree is based on a member's supervised agricultural experience program in agribusiness or production agriculture, and leadership ability as demonstrated through involvement in FFA, school and community activities. The State FFA Degree award charms are sponsored by MFA Inc., Columbia. The Missouri FFA has 25,945 members representing 348 chapters. The national organization has more than 700,000 members representing 8,612 chapters in all 50 states, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The FFA makes a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth and career success through agricultural education.

Wohoo shout out to Colton Worley for Diversified Horticulture Proficiency Award!

We are glad to brighten the kids days with plants

I’ll be posting the videos when our students will be called out for awards

Very heartbroken not being able to tell our seniors goodbye. Great bunch of seniors that we know will do wonderful things. Remember you may out grow the blue jacket but never the life lessons you gained from it. Good luck and enjoy some throwback pics

State FFA update on things like state convention, CDE, proficiency awards, etc

Students did an amazing job this year with our greenhouse. With not knowing how this school year will end we decided to spread spring/summer joy around PB. Thanks to our local garden club and Poplar Bluff Parks and Recreation for helping with this project and taking our beautiful plants for everyone to enjoy. We look forward to seeing all the student grown flowers in the planting beds around parks, downtown areas, and the train depot. We hope to spread joy and put smiles on faces around PB during this hard time. Planting a seed is to believe in tomorrow.

After long day and night trying to hatch we have two so far!

Hatching day is here! We have a couple of cracks from their egg tooth. My boys are on chick watch!

We love Indian Creek Bee Co! Check out her awesome honeybee/beekeeping education class video they made.

Something to smile about. Spring flowers are blooming in greenhouse. Tentative opening date April 27th

Day 8 of incubating chicken eggs. The eye lids are starting to form, feather buds develop, and egg tooth forms. Exciting to see the embryo move around!

State FFA Convention is postponed. Will update if we have anymore information.State FFA Convention is postponed. Will update if we have anymore information.

Lackeys shop classes have had a very successful semester. Senior FFA member Carlee Wiseman welded a fire pit cooker that is ready for current river, Savannah also created a special goat gate, and our man Mr Sparks has been a HUGE help with building shelves for both shops!

Floriculture classes worked hard on designing, figuring the flower order, and creating these awesome pieces for the Top 30 Banquet. Proud of this group

Senior FFA member welded this awesome goat feeder in Mr Lackeys class. Her goats may be a little spoiled

Congrats to freshmen Audrie Sievers for being selected to attend HYMAX academy this summer. Awesome accomplishment! Good luck to Austin Stoner who has made it to 2nd round Missouri Agribusiness Academy interviews that will be Monday.

We had Leadership Development Events at Twin Rivers. I apologize I didn’t get picture of knowledge team. Students did awesome! Going on to Districts Tanner Robinson- 2nd in Employment Skills Brendan Yarbro- 3rd in Extemporaneous Speaking Knowledge Team- 3rd place Audrie Sievers, Grace Daves, Kanye Ingle, and Garret Cooper.... Audrie also did an amazing job at Creed speaking.

Attention seniors majoring in Ag please make sure and APPLY! I’ve reached out to a couple of you that I know are going to be ag majors. Thanks Farm Credit Southeast Missouri for supporting the next generation of agriculture!

Congrats to our FFA Officer, Tanner Robinson who will be officially receiving his FFA state degree at convention next month. Awesome honor especially as a Junior!

Trying something different this year since we have fish in greenhouse. We released 1500 ladybugs this morning in the greenhouse to help with pest control.

Love this! We accept your challenge Nellyville FFA. Happy FFA week. Video coming soon

Spring is around the corner! Don’t forget about our PBHS FFA Plant Sale! Students have been busy in the greenhouse panting and getting ready for spring

Great trip to STL yesterday. Spent some time at the arch. We toured Nestle Purina with PBHS alumni Kayla Miller. Followed by touring O-B-P agriculture advertising firm. Then ended with the WIN at the blues game.

PB FFA says LETS GO BLUES!!!

For those that don’t know, MFA Incorporated has partnered with State Technical College of Missouri in Linn to offer a Custom Applicator Program. The program beg...an in the fall of 2019 and our first class of students are in their second semester. Students are provided with hands-on education, two internship experiences and the opportunity for full time employment with MFA after graduation! As we look at enrollment for this fall, there’s still room to participate! We have 5 remaining seats available in the program. We’d love to see you share the information with the schools in your area. As an added bonus, students accepted into the program also receive a $15,000 scholarship to use towards the cost of their education. This scholarship is in addition to any other scholarships they receive. Our program is truly one of a kind and a great fit for so many students. SHARE or tag any students you know that may be interested in this awesome opportunity! See more

Thanks so much to our local garden club on educating us on pruning roses. Shout out to some of our FFA members who helped after school today pruning the roses at the beautiful train depot.

FFA has chapter valentines party/meeting this week.

Floriculture painted rocks for Poplar Bluff rocks to go into the VA hospital rock garden. Greenhouse class made their dream 3D greenhouse.

Mr Lackeys class had some cute visitors lately!

We are so excited to have Lake Road garden club again this year! Awesome group of kids