The FFA recently sent 13 members to the Knox County Forestry Competition and came out in fourth place and participated in the District Invitational Practice Contest to prepare for the State competition.

First students must have had a general understanding of timber cruising and put that to use as long as identifying the trees that were present. Throughout this practicum you have to identify the tree, properly use the DBH tape to measure the width of the tree as well as finding out how many 16-foot logs are in the tree and use this information and charts to see how much that tree is worth in the end. As they will advance to the next level of competition not only will they be completing a timber cruise practicum but they will also be completing the other practicums for this year and test their knowledge in the areas of general forestry knowledge, wood products, complete a compass course, identification of 20-25 leaves and forestry equipment identification

Fredericktown FFA Advisor is Debra Burden.

Participating FFA members were:

(front) Landin Messner, Mykiah Bowers, Lilleigh Scarbury, Trey Levering, Houston Decker, Allissya Dugan, Maddie Bartlett, and Jordyn Neighbarger.

(back) Austin Robinson, Lauren Neighbarger, Isaac Craig, Austin Frazier, Lane Dugan, Izzy Broerman, Shiann Stewart.

Written by Austin Frazier