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Montrose AG I QUIZ BOWL QUESTIONS 1. Name 3 of 6 types of SAEP’s. Answer : Supervised Farming, Farm Placement, Cooperative Work Experience Program, Exploratory, Improvement Projects, Supplementary Farm Practices 2. T or F: An SAEP should help a student determine his/her occupational objective. Answer : True 3. Proficiency Awards are based on a student’s __________________. Answer : Supervised Agriculture Experience Program (SAEP) 4. When writing a farming agreement, what person should the agreement be written in? Answer : Third person 5. What is an asset? Answer : It is property owned that has a value. 6. What is a liability? Answer : It is the outstanding amount a person owe 7. What is a budget? Answer : It is a plan or projection of anticipated expenses, incomes, and net returns. 8. Why was the Future Farmers of America changed to just FFA at the National Level? Answer : There was the feeling that the organization needed name change for the reason that the FFA wasn’t just for students who wanted to go into production agriculture. 9. What are the three areas the FFA seeks to develop in its members? Answer : 1.)Premier leadership 2.)Personal Growth 3.) Career success 10. The pin symbolizing the Greenhand Degree is made of what type of metal? Answer : Bronze 11. What are the six constitutional FFA officers? Answer : President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Reporter, and Sentinel.
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AG I QUIZ BOWL QUESTIONS
1. Name 3 of 6 types of SAEP’s.
Answer : Supervised Farming, Farm Placement, Cooperative Work Experience Program, Exploratory,
Improvement Projects, Supplementary Farm Practices
2. T or F: An SAEP should help a student determine his/her occupational objective.
Answer : True
3. Proficiency Awards are based on a student’s __________________.
Answer : Supervised Agriculture Experience Program (SAEP)
4. When writing a farming agreement, what person should the agreement be written in?
Answer : Third person
5. What is an asset?
Answer : It is property owned that has a value.
6. What is a liability?
Answer : It is the outstanding amount a person owe
7. What is a budget?
Answer : It is a plan or projection of anticipated expenses, incomes, and net returns.
8. Why was the Future Farmers of America changed to just FFA at the National Level?
Answer : There was the feeling that the organization needed name change for the reason that the
FFA wasn’t just for students who wanted to go into production agriculture.
9. What are the three areas the FFA seeks to develop in its members?
Answer : 1.)Premier leadership 2.)Personal Growth 3.) Career success
10. The pin symbolizing the Greenhand Degree is made of what type of metal?
Answer : Bronze
11. What are the six constitutional FFA officers?
Answer : President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, Reporter, and Sentinel.
12. Judging contests are now known as ___________?
Answer : Career Development Events or CDE’s.
13. Career Development Events are designed to test what?
Answer : Knowledge and skills.
14. What three animals are judged in livestock career development events?
Answer : Beef, Sheep, and Swine
15. What is the scientific name for beef?
Answer : Bovine
16. How many taps of the gavel tells the members to be seated?
Answer : One
17. What are the four common methods of voting?
Answer : Voice Vote, Rising Vote, Secret Ballot, and Roll Call.
18. What are the four classifications of motions?
Answer : Privileged, incidental, subsidiary, unclassified
19. The secretary keeps proceedings of the meetings called…
Answer : Minutes
20. What is the female bovine that has not yet given birth?
Answer : Heifer
21. What are the four functions of livestock?
Answer : Food, Clothing, Power, Recreation
22. The male parent of any four-legged animal.
Answer : Sire
23. A castrated male hog.
Answer : Barrow
24. Define mutton.
Answer : Meat from a sheep that was slaughtered over 14 months of age.
25. Define polled.
Answer : Born without horns.
26. Define shorn.
Answer : A sheep that has been sheared.
27. Define Colostrum.
Answer : Known as first milk. Rich in vitamins and minerals, give offspring antibodies, acts as a
laxative.
28. What does the word cattle mean.
Answer : Mean possession
29. What is Bos Indicus?
Answer : Humped cattle common to the tropical countries that belong to the Zebu (Brahma) group.
30. What state leads the U.S. in beef production?
Answer : Texas
31. Name three common British cattle breeds.
Answer : Angus, Hereford, Shorthorn
32. What are the 4 types of cattle?
Answer : beef type, dairy type, dual purpose type, draft type.
33. What percent of U.S. cows never calve?
Answer : 8%
34. What two factors affect age of puberty?
Answer : breed and environmental factors.
35. On average how long is a cow’s estrus cycle?
Answer : 21 days.
36. What are the 5 U.S. Quality Grades of beef
Answer : Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Utility
37. What are the five U.S. yield grades?
Answer : 1,2,3,4,5.
38. What is it called when a calf or lamb hind feet is coming 1st.
Answer : breech.
39. What two areas are sheep divided into in the U.S.
Answer : Farm flock and range
40. Why has the importance of wool declined in the last century?
Answer : The competition of other natural and synthetic fibers/
41. The “Columbia” sheep breed is a cross of ________?
Answer : Lincoln ewe and Rambouliet ram.
42. What is a band of sheep?
Answer : 900 to 1100 head.
43. A Rambouillet is an example of what kind of wool type?
Answer : fine
44. What is meant by tagging sheep?
Answer : removal of dirty wool around the dock.
45. What is the average gestation period for sows.
Answer : 114 days
46. What do confinement piglets need a shot of?
Answer : iron
47. What are the slaughter swine U.S. grades?
Answer :1,2,3,4, and utility.
48. What year did the horse population in the U.S. reach an all-time high?
Answer : 1915
49. When did the horse population in the U.S. bottom out?
Answer : 1960
50. Height of a horse is measured in _________?
Answer : hands
51. What is the average gestation period of a mare?
Answer : 336 days
52. A mule is a cross between a ______?
Answer : Jack and a mare.
Grover
1. What are four requirements for FFA membership?
Answer:
2. The FFA is structured on three levels. What are they?
Answer:
3. The President of the FFA chapter uses the gavel while conducting meetings. What is the function of the
gavel?
Answer:
4. List three ways to amend a motion.
Answer:
5. What are the types of SAE’s a member can have?
Answer:
Wiggins
1. What are five of the six essential feed nutrients?
Answer:
2. What are three functions of roots?
Answer:
3. What are the three main parts of roots?
Answer:
4. What do the letters “PALS” stand for in FFA?
Answer:
5. How many Proficiency Award areas are there at the National level?
Answer:
6. Where is the rack located on a lamb?
Answer:
7. What are two financial statements used in record keeping?
Answer:
8. What two categories are assets and liabilities split into?
Answer:
9. What is the total dollars received on a 1250# steer @ $70/cnt?
Answer:
Caliche
1. T or F: An animal fattens from front to rear.
Answer:
2. What is the formula for figuring net worth?
Answer:
Fleming
1. Name three field crops that are annual grasses.
Answer:
2. Name two field crops that are legumes.
Answer:
3. Name four swine breeds.
Answer:
4. Define welding.
Answer:
5. Name three “small grains” grown in the U.S.
Answer:
6. Name three cereal grains.
Answer:
7. Name the only major meat animal native to the U.S.
Answer:
8. Name three “continental” beef breeds.
Answer:
Meeker
1. What is the symbol of labor and tillage of the soil?
Answer:
2. What officer is stationed by the door?
Answer:
3. The first two words of each paragraph of the FFA creed begins with what?
Answer:
4. What is the name of the FFA program developed to have agriculture education students communicate
agriculture to elementary students?
Answer:
5. Who is responsible for calling special meetings?
Answer :
6. At what symbol is the treasurer stationed?
Answer :
7. Which officer has the responsibility of preparing the meeting place?
Answer :
8. The primary aim of the FFA is the development of agriculture, leadership, cooperations, and
_______?
Answer :
9. How many paragraphs make up the FFA creed?
Answer :
10. The National FFA Organization established how many areas in which FFA chapters could plan
activities?
Answer :
11. Which degree of membership is entitled to wear the bronze pin?
Answer :
12. What young lady was the first female to serve as our National FFA Organization President?
Answer :
13. What is the name of the proficiency award area to encourage the use of modern management
practices in the production and marketing of seedlings, shrubs, bedding plants, and other
nursery stock?
Answer :
14. How long must a chapter farmer be able to lead a group discussion?
Answer :
15. How many National Vice-Presidents are elected each year?
Answer :
16. What is the name of the proficiency award area to encourage members to use sound management
practices in the efficient production and marketing of mutton and wool?
Answer :
17. How many areas are available for members to receive a Proficiency Award?
Answer :
18. What pin is the Chapter FFA Degree entitled to wear?
Answer :
19. Which officer receives and deposits funds in the local chapter?
Answer :
20. Which officer is in charge of the supervision of all chapter committee operations?
Answer :
21. The gavel used by the president is a symbol of ______?
Answer :
22. What is the ultimate governing body of the National FFA Organization?
Answer :
23. In a typical FFA meeting setting, the American Flag is placed at the station of which officer?
Answer :
24. What is the name of the National Leadership Training Program offered for FFA members each
summer by the National FFA Organization?
Answer :
25. How many taps of the President’s gavel should follow the announcement that the meeting is
adjourned?
Answer :
26. National FFA week is observed during the week which includes whose birthday?
Answer :
27. What is the highest degree of membership that can be given by the local chapter?
Answer :
28. What is the symbol of the Secretary?
Answer :
29. Who was the First STAR Agribusiness of America?
Answer :
30. Who is the 98-99 National FFA President?
Answer :
31. Whose responsibility is it to count votes?
Answer :
32. What should we be familiar with so business can be transacted in an orderly manner at the FFA
meetings?
Answer :
33. Where is the President stationed?
Answer :
34. During a meeting when do we give a salute to our Country’s flag.
Answer :
35. What is considered to be an outline which goals can be reached for a chapter, state, or national
program for a year?
Answer :
36. What honor can a local chapter give an individual who has given outstanding service to agriculture
and FFA?
Answer :
37. What is considered a majority vote?
Answer :
38. What should a member call for in a business meeting to convert a voice vote to one which can be
counted?
Answer :
39. What is the name of the Proficiency Award Area that encourages activities to make the home and
farm a more desirable place in which to live and work?
Answer :
40. What chapter officer is responsible for keeping a list of inventory of chapter owned equipment?
Answer :
41. All chapter officers must have what degree?
Answer :
42. When was the FFA Times newspaper first published at the National FFA Convention?
Answer :
43. What is the name of the Proficiency Award Area to encourage the use of Modern Management
Practices in the production and marketing of crops such as Barley (including Malting), Millet,
Buckwheat, Oats, Corn, and Grain Sorghum?
Answer :
44. Can a freshman be awarded the State FFA Degree?
Answer :
45. In 1939, the FFA purchased 28 and a half acres of whose estate?
Answer :
46. What is the name of the Proficiency Award area to encourage horse production and/or horse related
supervised agriculture experience which may result in career opportunities in the horse
industry?
Answer :
47. Do National Officers have to have their American FFA?
Answer :
48. What does the owl on the Emblem represent?
Answer :
49. How many times a year is the FFA New Horizons Magazine published?
Answer :
50. How many National Judging contests are available to members to participate in to show their skills
and knowledge in?
Answer :
51. What symbol signifies progress and the new day that will dawn when all farmers are educated and
have learned to cooperate?
Answer :
52. Who appoints committees and serves as an ex-officio member?
Answer :
53. How many candidates may a state submit for National Officer each year?
Answer :
54. What state received the number one charter from the National FFA Association?
Answer :
55. Name the chapter officers.
Answer :
56. What material is the official FFA jacket made from?
Answer :
57. What insignia is the State FFA Degree recipient entitled to wear?
Answer :
58. What year did delegates at the National Convention vote to raise the number of official delegate
assembly to 475?
Answer :
Meeker
Agriculture Business Questions for Quiz Bowl
1. Describe one method of starting a farm operation with limited capital.
Answer: Leasing, renting, and Limited Partnership
2. Please state two types of farm business organizations.
Answer: Sole proprietorship, partnership, or corporation
3. What is one advantage of a corporation over the other forms of farm businesses?
Answer: Limited liability. The stockholder is liable only to the extent of the value of the stock.
4. State three of the four factors of production.
Answer: Land, Labor, Capital, and Management.
5. Total liabilities subtracted from total assets represents the owner’s _________?
Answer: Equity or net worth
6. A summary of all assets and liabilities in a farming operation at a specific point in time is known as a
_______?
Answer: Balance sheet or net worth statement.
7. Applying __________ to acidic soil raises the pH level?
Answer: lime
8. The no-till management system usually requires a higher use of ______?
Answer: Pesticides, Herbicides.
9. The tillage practice that leaves crop residue on the soil surface is known as _________ tillage.
Answer: Conservation tillage.
10. List two ways to reduce or avoid soil compaction.
Answer: Avoid tillage of soils that are too wet
The use of dual wheels on tractors
Reduce traffic in fields as much as possible
No-till management system
11. Why should a farmer use hedging on a futures market?
Answer: Will produce price stability in the farming business.
12. List one way a farmer might use the grain futures market.
Answer: To set the price of a growing grain crop anytime prior to harvest.
To set the price of feed without taking immediate delivery.
To fix the price of grain in storage for deferred delivery.
Speculation purposes.
13. What is meant by the term margin money?
Answer: The deposit of sufficient funds to guarantee performance on the contract.
14. In what way is a sub-chapter S corporation different from the regular corporation?
Answer: It avoids “dual taxation.” Only the shareholders pay tax on earnings.
15. What is one major question that should be resolved before a parent and child form a partnership.
Answer: Can the farm business provide enough income to support two families?
Do they share the same goals/ideas for the business?
16. How does soil management relate to farm business?
Answer: The better soil management the greater profits can be achieved. (i.e. increased yields)
17. The title of the person whose duty it is to see the proper disposition of your estate at your death is
__________?
Answer: Executor
18. The person who receives life insurance proceeds is known as the _________?
Answer: Beneficiary.
19. What are two factors that influence where certain crops or livestock are produced?
Soils and topography, Climate, Market, Transportation.
20. A ______ _______ sheet is used to record all cash expenses, except payments for labor.
Answer: Cash Disbursement sheet
21. What is the first step in setting up a record keeping system that includes such items as land, buildings and
machinery?
Answer: Inventory.
22. What kind of test helps determine the rate of fertilizer needed for a particular crop?
Answer: Soil test.
23. What does NPK stand for?
Answer: Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium.
24. Cutting forage earlier and more often can help to __________ while maintaining quality.
Answer: Boost yield.
25. What is the largest cost in producing livestock?
Answer: Feed
26. What are prices determined by?
Answer: Supply and Demand.
27. What is the responsibility of the broker?
Answer: He or she carries out your market orders and advises you.
28. What does the term “Basis” mean in regards to the grain futures market?
Answer: The difference between the price of cash grain at the delivery point and the nearby future.
29. List two responsibilities of the landlord in a typical lease.
Answer: Land, Property Taxes, Insurance, Repairs.
30. List two responsibilities of the tenant in a typical lease arrangement.
Answer: Machinery, Fuel, Supplies, and Equipment.
31. What are two advantages of keeping computerized farm records?
Answer: More efficient, More accurate, More flexible.
32. What is a budget?
Answer: A plan for estimated expenses, income, and returns.
33. What is a cash flow projection?
Answer: A cash flow projection is directed toward planning and budgeting for the coming year.
34. Define assets.
Answer: Anything owned or receivable that has exchange value.
35. Why should production goals be established?
Answer: They should be set to provide goals which will be an encouragement to improve likelihood of
success.
Meeker
1. What is a common dressing percent for beef cattle?
Answer: 63% (60-65% acceptable)
2. In swine feed rations, what is the most common protein supplement?
Answer: Soybean meal
3. What is the main factor in determining yield grade in lambs?
Answer: Back fat
4. What is the major disease concern in dairy production?
Answer: Mastitis
5. What is a castrated male horse called?
Answer: A gelding
6. There are two factors that influence cutability in swine. One factor is muscle; what is the other?
Answer: Fat
7. In swine production, what desease causes a thickening and twisting of the snout?
Answer: Atrophic Rhinitis
8. On a beef animal, where does a chuck steak come from?
Answer: Shoulder
9. What is the gestation length of mares?
Answer: 330 days or 11 months.
10. On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, what weight of cattle does the term “live cattle” refer to?
Answer: Slaughter weight (1100 – 1300 lbs)
11. What favorite breakfast meat comes from the belly of a swine carcass?
Answer: Bacon
12. In American sheep production, what is the most common breed of sheep that produces a fine grading
fleece and has a low maintenance requirement?
Answer: Rambouillett
13. What breed of horse typically has the fastest time in a quarter mile race?
Answer: Quarter horse
14. What breed of swine is solid white, has a large, heavy droop ear, and is noted for its prolificy?
Answer: Landrace
15. What breed of dairy cow has the highest milk production?
Answer: Holstein
16. Which breed of cattle is most noted for high lean gain and extremely muscular carcasses?
Answer: Limousin
17. What is the average weight of a hog at time of slaughter?
Answer: 230 lbs. (220-260 lbs.)
18. What does EPD stand for in beef production?
Answer: Expected Progeny Difference.
19. What does EPD stand for in swine production?
Answer: Expected Progeny Deviation.
20. What does FEPD stand for in sheep production?
Answer: Flock Expected Progeny Difference.
21. True or False: Dairymen were the first people to use genetic evaluation.
Answer: True
22. What time of the year to ewes breed?
Answer: Fall, they are short day breeders.
23. Yes or No: Is it possible to expect a sow to farrow twice in one year?
Answer: Yes
24. How old is a ewe that has six adult teeth?
Answer: 3 years old.
25. What breed of swine is solid red?
Answer: Duroc
26. What is the most common use of a Belgian horse?
Answer: work.
27. At what time of the year are ewes both open and dry?
Answer: Summer
28. If a horse is 15 hands tall, how tall is he in inches?
Answer: 60 inches (4 inches = 1 hand.
29. When evaluating market animals, where is the best place to look to determine muscularity.
Answer: Forearm or Stifle.
30. If a horse is well balanced, how much larger is his bottom line in relation to his top line?
Answer: Twice as long.
31. Where is the National Western Stock Show held?
Answer: Denver
32. What is an average rib eye area of a market lamb?
Answer: 2.5 inches
33. What is the gestation length of a cow.
Answer: 283 days
34. What two breeds are crossed to produced what is called a black baldie?
Answer: Hereford and Angus
35. What do you call a castrated male pig.
Answer: Barrow.
36. What is a stag?
Answer: A steer that had started to develop secondary sex characteristics before he was castrated.
37. What is a female pig called before she has a litter of piglets?
Answer: Gilt
38. At what weight does a pig become a hog?
Answer: 180 lbs.
39. Think of an 1100 lb mature cow. What percent of her body weight will she eat per day?
Answer: 2 to 3 percent.
40. What is the purpose of a chin-ball marker on a gomer bull.
Answer: To identify females in heat.
41. What are 5 of the 6 essential nutrients?
Answer: Water, Carbohydrates, Protein, Fats, Vitamins, Minerals
42. What are the 4 fat-soluble vitamins?
Answer: A, D, E, and K.
43. What is the gestation period of swine?
Answer: 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days (114 days)
44. What factor affects cutability?
Answer: back fat
45. What is the major health concern in feedlots?
Answer: Acidosis or feed engorgement.
46. Where is the poll located on a sheep.
Answer: Top of head
47. What are the top four quality grades of beef.
Answer: Prime, choice, select, standard.
48. How many yield grades of beef are there?
Answer: five
49. Which breed of cattle have a red, white, or roan color pattern?
Answer: Shorthorn
50. What mineral shot is required by pigs soon after birth?
Answer: Iron
51. What is the most common limiting amino acid in swine nutrition?
Answer: Lysine
52. What is the minimum number of teats per side a gilt should have before considering her for a
replacement?
Answer: six.
53. What are the muscle scores of swine carcasses?
Answer: 1, 2, and 3
54. Which breed of sheep is noted for having an extremely fine grading fleece?
Answer: Merino
55. Where is the rack located on a sheep?
Answer: On its back directly behind the top of the shoulder.
56. What is the major factor affecting the immune system?
Answer: Stress
57. How long is a hank?
Answer: 560 yards ( a hank refers to spinning count in wool.)
58. How long is the gestation period in ewes?
Answer: 3 months or 147-153 days.
59. Which breed uses the slogan “America’s Most Versatile Horse.”
Answer: Quarter horse
60. What distinguishes a horse as being a bay?
Answer: black mane, tail, and black points.
61. How long do mares stay in heat?
Answer: 5-8 days.
62. What is the most common method of breeding dairy cows?
Answer: Artificial Insemination.
63. What are the two most important criteria in bull selection?
Answer: Structural correctness (soundness) and fertility
64. As what type of feed is corn classified?
Answer: Energy feed.
65. What type of feed is soybean meal classified?
Answer: Protein supplement
66. Where is the gaskin on a horse?
Answer: Above the hock and below the base of the hip (quarter.)
67. Where does the North American International Livestock Exposition take place?
Answer: Louisville, Kentucky
Meeker
1. What is Agronomy?
Answer: The study of the principles and practices of crop production.
2. What percent of the United States population in involved in food production?
Answer: Around 2%. (1-3%)
3. What percent of the Third World population is involved in food production?
Answer: 75-80%.
4. What percentage of their income do consumers in the U.S. spend on food?
Answer: 16-17%
5. What percentage of their income do Third World consumers spend on food?
Answer: 60-90%
6. What is the main reason that United States agriculture requires so little hand labor when compared to
other countries, especially in the Third World?
Answer: Mechanization – the use of machinery.
7. What is biomass?
Answer: The total amount of material a plant produces.
8. What are three ways in which biomass can be used for fuel?
Answer: They (plant materials) can be burned directly or converted to liquid or gaseous fuels.
9. What other valuable product is produced when alcohol is distilled from corn or other grain?
Answer: Distiller’s grain
10. What are distiller’s grains used for?
Answer: Livestock feed.
11. Why is it necessary to continue increasing the world’s food supply?
Answer: The world’s demand for food will continue to increase as the population of the world increases.
12. What is the ultimate source of the various kinds of energy (except atomic energy) that we use on this
earth?
Answer: Sunlight, sun, or light.
13. What are three of the functions of roots and what are the two basic types of root systems?
Answer: They provide a firm anchor for the plants. They take up water nutrients for plant use, storage of
food. Two types of roots – fibrous, taproots.
14. What is the function of stomates?
Answer: They regulate the flow of air and water vapor in and out of leaves.
15. What is a monoecious plant?
Answer: The male flower and the female flower parts are in different locations on the same plant.
16. What is a diocecious plant?
Answer: The male and female flower parts are located on different plants.
17. What are the three main parts of a seed?
Answer: embryo, food supply (generally starch), and seed coat.
18. What elements are considered necessary for normal plant growth?
Answer: Carbon ( C), Oxygen (O), Hydrogen (H), Nitrogen (N), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Phosphorus
(P), Magnesium (Mn), Zinc (Zn), Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Molybdenum (Mo).
19. What is the most valuable crop grown in the United States?
Answer: Corn
20. What is the most important grain crop in the world?
Answer: Wheat
21. What are the six types of corn?
Answer: Dent corn, flint corn, sweet corn, popcorn, flour corn, and pod corn.
22. What should be the primary goal of seedbed preparation?
Answer: Provide optimum conditions for germination, emergence, and seedling growth.
Encourage the absorption of water.
Control weeds.
Preserve soil tilt.
23. What row spacing is most commonly used in irrigated corn production in the South Platte River basin?
Answer: 30 inches.
24. What is the recommended length of cut for making good corn silage?
Answer: ¼ inch.
25. If shelled corn is to be stored for a year or more, what should its moisture content be?
Answer: 13%
26. What are the six leading states in wheat production?
Answer: Kansas, Oklahoma, Washington, Texas, Montana, and Nebraska.
27. What are the seven market classes of wheat grown in the U.S.?
Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Soft red winter wheat
Durum Wheat
White Wheat
Unclassed Wheat
Mixed wheat
28. Of the two classes of hard red wheat, which has the best bread making qualities?
Answer: Spring
29. Which class of wheat is grown most extensively in Colorado?
Answer: Hard red winter wheat.
30. What is the standard weight for a bushel of wheat in pounds?
Answer: 60 lbs.
31. What is the Standard protein percent for hard red winter wheat?
Answer: 12%
32. What is the main use for oats grown in Colorado?
Answer: Hay
33. What are the two species (classes) of barley grown in Colorado?
Answer: 2 row, 6 row
34. What are the two primary uses of barley grown in the U.S.?
Livestock feed and Malting
35. What is the standard weight of a bushel of barley?
Answer: 48 lbs.
36. Why is alfalfa referred to as “queen of forages”?
Answer: It is considered the best of the forage crops.
37. What characteristic of alfalfa makes it best suited to a rotation ahead of corn?
Answer: Its ability to fix large quantities of nitrogen in the soil.
38. What is the bacteria that lines on the alfalfa root that actually fixes the nitrogen?
Answer: Rhizobia
39. A plant that fixes its own nitrogen is called a what?
Answer: Legume
40. What other crop is commonly grown in Colorado that is also a legume?
Answer: Dry bean (pinto bean)
Delta
1. Name three white breed of Swine.
Answer:
2. What are the three English breeds of Cattle?
Answer:
3. What are the top two states in beef production?
Answer:
4. Name two of the Beef Packing Companies.
Answer:
5. What is the shortest board safely ripped on a table saw?
Answer:
6. Contrast per capita consumption of beef and chicken since 1980.
Answer:
7. What Amperage range is needed for E-6013, 1/8”
Answer:
8. What size cutting tip is needed for 3/8” steel?
Answer:
9. How many square feet in one acre?
Answer:
10. Name the four family classifications of horses, swine, sheep, and cattle.
Answer:
11. What are four categories of SAE programs in Colorado?
Answer:
12. Give the last sentence of the Creed.
Answer:
Olathe
1. What are three Career Development Events?
Answer:
2. Is point of order a subsidiary motion?
Answer:
3. What color lens is required to Arc Weld?
Answer: #10
4. What is the color of acetylene hose
Answer: Red
5. What direction are the threads on an acetylene tank?
Answer: Left
New Raymer
1. Who was the first female State FFA President for Colorado?
Answer: Denise Tappy
2. What is the gestation period of a cow? Sow?
Answer: 283, 114
3. Assets minus Liability equals what?
Answer: Net Worth
4. What is the highest quality grade of beef cattle?
Answer: Prime.
5. What is the highest yield grade of beef cattle?
Answer: #1
6. The term polled means?
Answer: No horns.
7. Hard red winter is a class of what crop?
Answer: Wheat
8. An uncastrated male hog is a?
Answer: Boar
9. Charlois is a breed of what species of livestock?
Answer: Beef/Cattle
10. Wind chill is a factor of what two things?
Answer: Wind speed, temperature.
11. What is Colorado’s land grant university?
Answer: CSU
12. What is the first of the four stomachs of a cow called?
Answer: Rumen
13. What kind of barley is grown under dryland farming conditions?
Answer: 2 row barley
Holly
1. Which breed of cattle has the largest horns?
Answer: Watusi
2. What meat comes from 4-5 month old beef calves?
Answer: Veal
3. Name two things that sheep produce each year.
Answer: Lambs and wool.
5. How many compartments are there in a rumen and stomach?
Answer:
7. TDN is an abbreviation for ___________?
Answer: Total Dig. Nutrients
8. What type of plant completes its life cycle in two years?
Answer: Biennial
9. How is soil acidity or alkalinity expressed?
Answer: pH
10. In a 10-20-10 mixture of fertilizer, 20 is a measure of what nutrient?
Answer: Phosphorus
11. How many tons of manure will an average beef cow produce each year?
Answer: 8.5
Fort Morgan
1. What is the gestation period of a pig?
Answer: 114 days
2. How many acres are in a section of land?
Answer: 640
3. What is the part of the leaf which encircles the stem?
Answer: Sheath
4. What is the degree of acidity or alkalinity of a substance?
Answer: pH
5. The principal root of a plant is called?
Answer:Taproot
6. What is manure from worms?
Answer: Castings
7. Any deviation from the normal state of health?
Answer: Disease
8. Name of the 4th or true stomach division of a ruminant animal?
Answer: Abomasum
9. What is the lean to fat ratio?
Answer: The amount of lean meat in a carcass compared to the amount of fat.
10. What is a word that refers to birds?
Answer: Avians
11. What are two methods of harvesting corn?
Answer: Picking/combining, and cutting for silage
Custer County
1. Was E.M. Tiffany, author of the FFA Creed, an FFA member?
Answer:
2. What two legislators implemented the Vocational Act of 1917?
Answer:
3. How many U.S. Presidents have visited the National FFA Convention?
Answer:
4. What tool is used to lay out a rafter?
Answer:
5. Where is the WLC held?
Answer:
6. What is a barrow in swine production?
Answer:
7. What is a castrated male chicken called?
Answer:
Pueblo County
1. What does polled mean?
Answer:
2. What is a Freemartin?
Answer:
3. What tool is used to check for plumb and level in construction?
Answer:
4. What is a placement SAEP?
Answer:
5. What is an Entrepreneurship SAEP?
Answer:
6. What is the difference between an expense item and an inventory item?
Answer:
7. What is an asset?
Answer:
8. What is a liability?
Answer:
9. What is a gilt?
Answer:
10. What is a heifer?
Answer:
Cortez
1. In measurement of horses what is a hand?
Answer: Four inches.
2. What are the five main colors of horses?
Answer: Bay, brown, black, chestnut, and white?
3. What are the two basic types of castration?
Answer: surgical, bloodless.
4. What are two characteristics of the A-horizon in a soil?
Answer: Dark color, High Organic matter
5. What is a male sheep called after castration?
Answer: Whether
6. Name three of the seven essential nutrients for animals.
Answer: protein, minerals, carbohydrates, fat, minerals, vitamins, and water.
7. What is the Latin name for beef cattle?
Answer: Bovine
8. What is the proper name for a male breeding hog? Female?
Answer: Boar, sow
9. In terms of injections cc is the same as what?
Answer: milliliter
10. What does the term subcutaneous mean?
Answer: under the skin.
11. Which breed of dairy cow is the smallest?
Answer: jersey
12. What gasses can be used in a Mig welder?
Answer: inert gasses that do not react with anything (CO, Argon)
13. What surrounds the electrode in an arc-welding rod?
Answer: flux
14. What colors are the oxy-acetylene hoses?
Answer: Red and Green
15. How far do you turn the acetylene tank valve?
Answer: ½ rotation.
16. What is meant by ruminant?
Answer: Animal with a four compartment stomach
17. What types of branding are there?
Answer: hot iron branding, freeze, and chemical.
18. What is a toxin?
Answer: When a microorganism enters a animal’s body and causes a poison
19. What are the four compartments of a ruminant’s stomach?
Answer: omasum, abomasum, rumen, and reticulum
20. What are accounts payable?
Answer: Accounts payable are money you pay at the end of a specific time.
21. What is a non-cash payment?
Answer: A cash expense is something you don’t pay money for
22. What is the definition of net-worth?
Answer: Assets minus Liabilities
23. What are two basic kinds of records?
Answer: Financial and Physical
24. Name two of the five factors responsible for soil development.
Answer: Parent Material, Life, Topography, Climate, and Time.
25. In soils, a natural soil aggregate is called a ___________.
Answer: Ped
26. How is soil texture determined in the field?
Answer: By feel or touch.
27. Do Incidental motions have an order of preference?
Answer: No
28. What breed of Dairy cow produces the most Butterfat? Milk?
Answer: Guernsey, Holstein.
29. Name a belted breed of hog.
Answer: Hampshire
30. What is the gestation length in cows?
Answer: 9 months
31. Name two breeds of cattle that originated in France.
Answer: Limousine, Charlois, Saler, and Maine-Anjou
32. Name an English breed known for excellent carcass quality.
Answer: Black Angus (Aberdeen)
Cortez
1. What is the difference between a porterhouse and a t-bone steak?
2. Answer : A porterhouse has three meat groups instead of two.
3. What is a heifer?
4. Answer : A female bovine that is under two and has not had a calf.
5. What is the animal most commonly used in embryo transplant?
Answer : Cattle
6. What is an “A” horizon?
Answer : Top soil
7. What is a “B” horizon
Answer : Subsoil
8. What are three invader grasses?
9. Answer : Tumbling Russian Thistle, Cheat Grass, and Canadian Thistle
10. What does A.I. stand for?
Answer : Artificial Insemination
11. When a 2/3 vote is required, state one way that you can vote.
12. Answer : Show of hands, standing
13. What breed of cattle originated from Texas?
Answer : Texas Longhorn
14. Name two breeds of cattle that originated in the U.S.
Polled Herford, Polled Shorthorn
15. What are the three breeds of cattle that were originated in England?
Answer : Hereford, Angus, and Shorthorn.
16. List three aims or goals of the FFA.
Answer : To develop, compete, and strive in leadership
17. List three breeds of pigs.
Answer : Yorkshire, Hampshire, Durroc
18. What does the plow on the FFA emblem stand for?
Answer : Signifies labor and tillage of the soil, the backbone of agriculture and the historic foundation
of our country’s strength.
19. Name three things that have to be accomplished to earn your Greenhand degree?
Answer : Memorize and understand the FFA Creed, be enrolled in Agriculture Education, Have
satisfactory plans for a SAEP, and Know and understand the FFA Motto.
20. Name three things that you must accomplish in order to receive your Chapter Farmer Degree.
Answer : Must have received the Greenhand Degree, Effectively led a fifteen min group discussion,
Submit a written application.
21. At a meeting, when doing the closing ceremonies, the president will say, “FFA members, why are we
here?” you say, “_____________.”
Answer : To Practice brotherhood, honor Agricultural opportunities and responsibilities, and develop
those qualities of leadership which an FFA member should posess.
22. What are the seven soil structures?
Answer : Priamatic, Colainner, Angular blocky, Subangular blocky, Granular, and Crumb.
23. In welding with an arc, what is a butt joint?
Answer : The arc welding of two pieces of metal.
24. What is a range site?
Answer : A part of a range area with similar soil slope and moisture.
25. What is a A.U.M.?
Answer : Animal Unit Month
26. What is a steer?
Answer : a castrated male bovine.
27. What are the four stomachs of a ruminate?
Answer : Rumen, reticulum, omaum, and abomasum
28. Who is the secretary of the Department of Agriculture?
Answer : Dan Glickman
29. What does CRP stand for?
Answer : Conservation reserve program
30. What is goat meat called?
Answer : Savan
31. Can you give an equine LA2000? Why or why not?
Answer : No. Because there is a chemical in LA2000 that makes their heart stop.
32. What are Mully calves?
Answer : Calves with no horns.
33. What does NAFTA stand for?
Answer : North American Free Trade Agreement
34. What does FDA stand for?
Answer : Food Drug Administration
35. In parliamentary procedure, what percent is majority vote?
Answer : 51%
Cortez
1. May other insignia or items such as school letters be worn on the jacket?
Answer : No
2. Who owns the supply service?
Answer : National FFA Organization
3. How long may a member keep their active membership?
Answer : Until November 30, following the fourth National Convention after graduating from high
school.
4. What is the purpose of the FFA?
Answer : To develop competent and aggressive agricultural leadership.
5. Who calls the role of officers?
Answer : The Vice-President
6. How many proficiency awards are available?
Answer : 29
7. What does numerous taps of the gavel mean?
Answer : Restores order
8. At what National FFA Convention was the dress code adopted?
Answer : 1976
9. How many paragraphs are in the FFA creed?
Answer : five
10. When was the first world conference in Agricultural Education held?
Answer : 1976
11. When was the first National Public Speaking Contest?
Answer : 1930
12. What does the rising sun in the center of the emblem stand for?
Answer : Rising sun symbolizes progress in agriculture and the confidence that all FFA members
have in the future.
13. The National FFA Organization was born in 1928. What were the National dues at the time?
Answer : 10 cents per member
14. What is the FFA salute?
Answer : The pledge of Allegiance
15. What two words are written in the FFA emblem?
Answer : Agricultural Education
16. List three qualifications you must have to receive a Greenhand degree?
Answer : Knowledge of the history, aim and purpose, the colors, the motto, the creed, and have
started a SAEP project.
17. When is National FFA week?
Answer : It is held during the week of George Washington’s birthday.
18. Does it require a second to lay an item of business on the table?
Answer : yes
19. Which degrees are given by the chapter?
Answer : Greenhand and Chapter Farmer
20. Which degree is given by the State Association?
Answer : State Farmer
21. Which degree is given by the National Organization?
Answer : American Farmer
22. Name three main levels of the FFA organization.
Answer : National organization, State Association, and the Local Chapter.
23. Officers of the FFA (on all levels) are elected how often?
Answer : Annually
24. Who supports the financial needs of the National Organization?
Answer : The FFA is self-supporting
25. How should the jacket be worn for best appearance?
Answer : The zipper fastened to the top, collar turned down, cuffs in place and buttoned.
26. What would be done if the jacket is given to a non-member?
Answer : The emblems and lettering removed.
27. There are 29 areas in which this award is given, name that award.
Proficiency Awards
28. What does the FFA creed mean?
Answer : A statement of beliefs held by FFA members
29. What is the code of ethics?
Answer : A set of guidelines for conduct of FFA members adopted by the members.
30. The owl is the symbol of what?
Answer : Knowledge and Wisdom
31. Where is the FFA Heifer Wrangle held each year?
Answer : The National Western Stock Show
32. What is FFA?
Answer : A national youth group
33. Who publishes the official FFA calendar?
Answer : The National FFA Supply Service
34. Who may purchase Official FFA Calendars without business sponsors?
Answer : Chapters, state associations, and individual members.
35. Who is in the National FFA Alumni Association?
Answer : Former FFA members and community members who support the FFA.
36. What does the cross-section of corn in the background of the emblem stand for?
Answer : Corn represents our common agricultural interests, is native to Americans, and is grown in
every state.
37. What do the profits from the National FFA Supply Service go to?
Answer : Helps to finance the overall FFA organization and national activities.
38. What is the goal of the membership development department?
Answer : Recruitment and retention of members
39. What are the four reasons FFA members are put ins competitive setting?
Answer : Technical knowledge, judgement, reasoning, and sportsmanship.
40. What is the purpose for Parliamentary Procedure?
Answer : To keep order in the meeting room
41. What is the reporter stationed by?
Answer : Stationed by the flag
42. Name five classes of motions in parliamentary procedure?
Answer : Privileged, incidental, subsidiary, main, and other/unclassified
43. Who can be in FFA?
Answer : Anyone enrolled in Agriculture Education.
44. What does SAEP stand for?
Answer : Supervised Agricultural Experience Program.
45. How many areas are there in the state judging contest?
Answer : Fifteen
46. When was National FFA week established?
Answer : 1948
47. The livestock team may participate in one of two contests with the second place team participating in
the remaining one. Name the two contests.
Answer : The National FFA Judging Contest at the National Convention and the National Western
Stockshow.
48. What four things qualify you for a Star Greenhand Award?
Answer : First year member, active in the chapter, demonstrates leadership, has a strong SAEP.
49. The National FFA Organization is the organization of, by, and for whom?
Answer : Students enrolled in agricultural education programs.
50. What do members receive after qualifying for the Greenhand degree?
Answer : The official bronze emblem pin.
51. What do members receive after qualifying for the chapter FFA degree?
Answer : The official silver emblem pin.
52. What degree must the national officers hold?
Answer : American FFA degree.
53. How many years can a active member hold a national office?
Answer : One year and can not be re-elected.
54. What is a membership year for the National FFA Organization?
Answer : September 1 to August 31.
55. What was the FFA Times Newspaper published?
Answer : 1981
1. Please name two of the Aims and Purposes of the National FFA Organization
Answer : To develop competent and assertive agricultural leadership.
To develop an awareness of the global importance of agriculture and its contribution to our well-
being.
To strengthen the confidence of agricultural students in themselves and their work.
To promote their intelligent choice and establishment of an agricultural career.
To stimulate development and encourage achievement in individual agricultural experience
programs.
To improve the economic, environment, recreational, and human resources of the community.
To develop character, train for useful citizenship, and foster patriotism.
To build cooperative attitudes among agriculture students.
To encourage wise management of resources.
To encourage improvement in scholarship.
To provide organized recreational activities for agriculture students.
2. What is the cost of national dues?
Answer : $5.00
3. Please name the five symbols on the FFA emblem and give their importance to the organization.
Answer : Cross section of the ear of corn – provides the foundation. It has served as the foundation
crop of American agriculture. It is a symbol of unity, as corn is grown in every state of the
nation.
Rising Sun – signifies progress and holds a promise that tomorrow will bring a day glowing
with opportunity.
Plow – signifies labor and tillage of the soil, the backbone of agriculture and the historic
foundation of our country’s strength.
Eagle – national symbol which serves as a reminder of our freedom and ability to explore
new horizons for the future of agriculture.
Owl – recognized for its wisdom, symbolizes the knowledge required to be successful in
t5he industry of agriculture.
4. Please state the proper official dress for all male and female members.
Answer : Male – Black slacks, white shirt, official FFA tie, black shoes, and official jacket zipped to the
top.
Female – Black skirt, white blouse with official FFA scarf, black shoes, and official jacket
zipped to the top.
5. Extent, size, or volume of SAE
Answer : Scope
6. Type of SAE where student is placed in production ag, ag business, school lab, or in community
facilities to gain experience and earn wages.
Answer : Placement
7. What is the date of your first beginning inventory?
Answer : First day of class of your first year in AgEd.
8. What are the four main classes of motions in order of procedure?
Answer : Privileged, incidental, subsidiary, unclassified.
9. If the vote was not clear as to passed or failed, as a member you might call for a _______.
Answer : Division
10. What is the highest ranking group of motions?
Answer : Privileged motions
11. How many activities above the chapter level must a member be involved in to be eligible for the State
FFA Degree?
Answer : Five
12. How long can a member maintain their membership>
Answer : Until the fourth national convention after their graduation.
13. Changing a main motion is called:
Answer : Amending
14. Why does a motion require a second?
Answer : To signify that at least two people wish to consider the item.
15. The number of members who must be present at a meeting to conduct business.
Answer : Quorum
16. What do the letters PALS stand for in the FFA?
Answer : Partner in Active Learning Support
17. What symbol represents each officer position including the Advisor?
Answer : Advisor: Owl
President: Rising Sun
Vice-President: Plow
Secretary: Ear of Corn
, Treasurer: Bust of Washington
Reporter: Flag
Sentinel: Hand Clasp
18. Name three motions that require a 2/3 vote.
Answer : Previous question, Limit/Extend time of debate, Suspend the rules, Rescind and Close
nominations.
19. Explain three uses of the gavel during a meeting.
Answer : - The gavel is a symbol of authority and, used correctly, ensures orderly meetings.
- One tap: announcement of adjournment, the completion of a business item, or is a
message to the members to be seated following opening ceremonies.
- Two Taps: gavel calls the meeting to order.
- Three taps: gavel is the signal for all members to stand in unison on the third tap.
- A series of taps is used to restore order at a meeting.
20. Name one of Colorado’s past national FFA presidents.
Answer : Greg Bamford, or Lyle Carpenter
21. Colorado has had __________ national FFA presidents.
Answer : Two
22. Which officer is in charge of public relations activities?
Answer : Reporter
23. What is the FFA Code of Ethics and when was it adopted?
Answer : Rules and behavior, adopted in 1952
24. A new member must recite what?
Answer : Creed
25. Name the motion used to introduce business in a meeting.
Answer : Main motion
26. If shelled corn is to be stored for a year or more, what should be its moisture content?
Answer : 13%
27. What are the seven market classes of wheat grown in the US?
Answer : Hard red spring wheat
Hard red winter wheat
Soft red winter wheat
Durum wheat
White wheat
Unclassed wheat
Mixed wheat
28. Of the two classes of hard red wheat, which has the bread making qualities?
Answer : Spring
29. What is the standard protein percent for hard red winter wheat?
Answer : 12%
30. What is the main use for oats grown in Colorado?
Answer : hay
31. What are the two species (classes) of barley grown in Colorado?
Answer : 2 row, 6 row
32. What are the two primary uses of barley grown in the U.S.?
Answer : Livestock feed and malting
33. What is the standard weight of a bushel of hard red winter wheat?
Answer : 60
34. Why is alfalfa referred to as “queen of the forages?
Answer : It is considered the best of the forage crops.
35. What characteristic of alfalfa makes it best suited to a rotation ahead of corn?
Answer : Its ability to fix large quantities of nitrogen in the soil.
36. What is the bacteria that lives on the alfalfa root that actually fixes the nitrogen?
Answer : Rhizobia
37. A plant that fixes its own nitrogen is called a what?
Answer : Legume
38. What are the advantages of beef production?
Answer : - uses home grown feeds
- maintains fertility
- uses land not suitable for farming
- little death loss (for producer)
- may be suitable for part-time farming
39. What are three disadvantages of beef production?
Answer : - uses considerable land
- requires fencing and water availability
- it propagates slowly
- inefficient in converting feed
- costly to assemble animals
40. List two systems of beef production
Answer : Feedlot, Seedstock, Cow/Calf, and Stocker (yearling)
41. List two advantages of swine production
Answer : - excel over other farm animals in converting feed to meat
- Prolific (two litters per year with 8-10 pigs)
- pork is nutritious
- Small investment in buildings and equipment
- minimal labor
42. List two disadvantages of swine production.
Answer : - a finishing pig requires maximum concentrates and minimum roughage
- susceptible to disease
- fences are expensive
- hard of pasture
- sows need constant attention and care at farrowing
43. List two systems of swine production.
Answer : purebred operation, complete farrow-finish operation, feeder pig operation, swine finishing
operation, garbage feeding operation, pig hatchery
44. List two of the five leading states in sheep production.
Answer : Texas, California, Wyoming, Colorado, and South Dakota
45. What are two systems of sheep production?
Answer : Farm flock, Purebred flock, Range-band method, Confinement method, and lamb feeding.
46. What are two common range sites in Eastern Colorado?
Answer : Deep sand, Choppy sand, Sandy plains, Sandy bottom land, Gravel breaks, Loamy plains,
and Loamy slopes.
47. A group of animals with like characteristics that transmit these characteristics to their offspring.
Answer : Breed
48. An animal whose sire and dam are of the same breed.
Answer : Purebred
49. Name four of the six feed nutrients.
Answer : Protein, carbohydrates, fats, minerals, vitamins, and water
50. Name four native grass hays.
Answer : Brome, Timothy, Fescue, Wheat grass, and Blue grass
51. If horses are equine and cows are bovine, what are sheep?
Answer : Ovine
52. What are the two uses of sheep?
Answer : Meat and wool.
53. Where would you find the frog in the horse?
Answer : In the hoof
54. What is a male turkey called?
Answer : Tom
55. The name of the process where sows are fed 20% more prior to breeding.
Answer : Flushing
56. The main function of protein is to build ________.
Answer : Muscle
57. A young female horse is called a ________
Answer : Filly
58. A young female hog is a _______.
Answer : Gilt
59. What country leads the world in cattle inventory?
Answer : India
60. What product is produced by fermenting milk?
Answer : Cheese
61. Colorado leads the nation in _________ slaughter.
Answer : lamb
62. What sheep breed has black face and legs?
Answer : Suffolk
63. What dairy breed is red and white?
Answer : Ayrshire
64. The process of depositing semen in a cow using a straw is called:
Answer : Artificial insemination
65. A cross between two inbred lines is called a ________.
Answer : Hybrid
66. Soybean meal provides _________ in the ration.
Answer : protein
67. The average lactation length for a dairy cow is ________.
Answer : 305 days.
68. The gestation period of a cow is _____.
Answer : 283 days.
69. How much does a bushel of corn weigh per bushel?
Answer : 56 pounds
70. The process by which plants manufacture their own food is called __________.
Answer : photosynthesis
71. The four compartments of a ruminant’s digestive system are:
Answer : Rumen, reticulum, omasum, abomasum
72. Cows and sheep belong to what class of livestock?
Answer : Ruminants
73. What are the three soil textural particles?
Answer : Sand, silt, clay
74. The process by which living things use energy.
Respiration.
75. What is the term for a bred dairy heifer which has not yet calved?
Answer : Springer
76. What is the name of the organization which monitors dairy herd production?
Answer : DHIA
77. What does BST stand for?
Answer : Bovine somatriptropin
78. A Cow eats 8lbs of feed and gains 1 lb. This ratio of 8:1 is called ________.
Answer : Feed conversion.
79. A condition commonly found in Piedmontese and Belgian Blue cattle.
Answer : Double muscling
80. Name the Englishman that did much to improve livestock quality in the 1700’s.
Answer : Henry Bakewell
81. The study of heredity is called what?
Answer : Genetics
82. Which country is probably the source of most of our modern breed of livestock?
Answer : England
83. Name the breed of dairy cow that normally produces the most pounds of milk.
Answer : Holstein
84. What is goat meat called?
Answer : Chevron
85. What is the carcass grade of a hog that is very fat?
Answer : No. 3
86. Name the white of an egg.
Answer : Albumen
87. Name the main egg-laying chicken breed.
Answer : White Leghorn
88. Sexual maturity is called __________.
Answer : puberty
89. Feed high in fiber.
Answer : Roughage
90. Plant that completes its life in one year.
Answer : Annual
91. Science of crop production and soil management.
Answer : Agronomy
92. Outside covering of a seed.
Answer : Hull
93. Soil improving plant that manufactures nitrogen.
Answer : Legume
94. A brangus is a cross between what two breeds?
Answer : Brahman and Angus.
95. The change from a dormant condition to one of activity and growth is known as:
Answer : Germination
96. Name the major parts of a plant.
Answer : Roots, stem, leaves, flower
97. What country did the Gelbvieh originate in?
Answer : Germany
98. What breed of drafthorse originated in Scotland?
Answer : Clydesdale.
99. What is the difference between a gilt and a sow?
Answer : A sow has already had a litter of pigs, where a gilt has not.
100. Name one variety of turkey.
Answer : Black, Bourbon Red, Bronze, Narragansett, and White Broad Breasted
101. What are the two classes of noxious weeds?
Answer : Restricted and prohibited
102. What are three female parts that make up the pistil in plants?
Answer : Stigma, style, and ovary
103. What is the process called when pollen attaches to the silk of a corn plant?
Answer : Fertilization
104. What is the practice of letting farmland set idle for one production cycle called?
Answer : Fallow
105. A measure of how well the animal fulfills the requirement for the class.
Answer : Market grade
106. The percentage of yield of chilled carcass in relation to the weight of live animal carcass in relation to
the weight of the live animal.
Answer : Dressing percentage
107. Means naturally hornless.
Answer : Polled
108. Bovine female that has not had any offspring.
Answer : Heifer
109. Male porcine that has been castrated.
Answer : Barrow
110. Mature equine that has had offspring.
Answer : Mare
111. TDN means what?
Answer : Total digestible nutrients.
112. Period of an animal’s pregnancy is called what?
Answer : Gestation
113. A plant that lives more that one year.
Answer : Perennial
114. Term for a plant originating in North America
Answer : Native
115. What is a common dressing percent for beef cattle?
Answer : 63% (60-65T acceptable)
116. What is the main factor in determining yield grade in lambs?
Answer : back fat
117. What is the major disease concern in dairy production?
Answer : Mastitis
118. A plant growing out of place is called a what?
Answer : Weed
119. Bovine brucellosis is a disease of what species of farm animal?
Answer : Beef
120. Name a feed high in carbohydrates.
Answer : Corn, wheat, oats.
121. Name an efficiency factor of beef breeding.
Answer : Percent calf crop, average weaning weight.
122. The gestation period for sheep is how many days?
Answer : 148
123. The gestation period for swine is how many days?
Answer : 3 months, 3 weeks, 3 days, (114 days)
124. Labor traded for equal values of feed, facilities, equipment usage, or other products or services.
Answer : Exchange labor
125. Financial claims against a business.
Answer : Liability
126. Claim against a property for an amount of money owed to someone or to a business.
Answer : Lien
127. The price paid for the use of the money over a period of time.
Answer : Interest
128. Plan for the use of money based on goals and expected income and expenses.
Answer : Budget
129. A written record of an animal’s ancestry.
Answer : Pedigree
130. Where does value of breeding animals go in the recordbook?
Answer : Inventory
131. A contract to buy or sell a cash commodity at a later date is called:
Answer : Forward contract
132. An instrument which is used to calculate your probable profit or loss on an enterprise.
Answer : Budget
133. What does GNP stand for?
Answer : Gross National Product
134. Name three items that the DTN or FarmDayta shows you.
Answer : Futures, Weather, Farm Forcasts, Charts (markets), and Locating services for farm
machinery.
135. What percent of the United States population is involved directly in food production?
Answer : Around 2% (actually, less than 2% now)
136. What percent of the Third World’s population is involved in food production?
Answer : 75-80%
137. What percentage of their income do consumers in the US spend on food?
Answer : 16-17%
138. What percentage of their income do Third World consumers spend on food?
Answer : 60-90%
139. What is the main reason that United States agriculture requires so little hand labor when compared to
other countries, especially in the third world?
Answer : Mechanization – the use of machinery
140. What is an asset?
Answer : Property, equipment, and resources owned by a person of business.
141. Yes or No: A cash flow summary is a historical record of monthly cash in-flows and out-flows for a
specified period of time.
Answer : Yes
142. Money that is owed by a business at the end of a specific time is what?
Answer : Accounts payable
143. A statement that shows the profit or loss of a business is called what?
Answer : Income Statement
144. What does a net worth statement list?
Answer : Value of assets and liabilities
145. Are feeder cattle considered a short-term or long-term asset?
Answer : Short term asset
146. What is depreciation?
Answer : A decrease in the value of an asset over a period of time.
147. Is breeding stock considered as a short-term asset in the inventory statement?
Answer : No (It is an intermediate asset.)
148. Who is recognized as the father of FFA?
Answer : Henry Groseclose
149. What is the FFA mission?
Answer : Developing premier leadership, personal growth, and career success.
150. What does three taps of the gavel mean?
Answer : The signal for all members to stand in unison on the third tap.
151. What year was National FFA Foundation started?
Answer : 1944
152. What year did the FFA and NFA merge?
Answer : 1965
153. What year did the FFA receive its federal charter?
Answer : 1950
154. Where is the National FFA Foundation located?
Answer : Madison, Wisconsin
155. Who was the first Star Farmer of America and what state was he from?
Answer : Carlton Patton of Arkansas
156. What are the requirements of receiving the State FFA degree?
Answer : -
Have received the Chapter FFA degree.
Have been a member for at least two years (24 months) at the time of receiving the State
FFA Degree.
While in school, have completed the equivalent of at least two years (360 hours) of
systematic school instruction in agricultural education at or above the ninth grade level, which
includes a supervised agricultural experience program.
Have earned and productively invested at least $2500, or worked at least 300 hours in
excess of scheduled class time, or a combination thereof, in a supervised agricultural
experience program.
Demonstrate leadership by:
Performing ten procedures of parliamentary law.
Giving a six-minute speech on a topic relating to agriculture or the FFA. Serving as an
officer, committee chairperson, or participating member of a chapter committee.
Have a satisfactory scholastic record as certified by the local agricultural education instructor
and the principal or superintendent.
157. Please name five of the twelve proper uses for the FFA jacket.
Answer :
The jacket is to be worn only by members.
The jacket should be kept neat and clean.
The jacket should have only a large emblem on the back and a small emblem on the front. It
should carry the name of the State Association and the name of the local chapter, district or
area on the back and the name of the individual and one office or honor on the front.
The jacket should be worn on official occasions with the zipper fastened to the top. The collar
should be turned down and the cuffs buttoned.
The jacket should be worn by members and officers on all official FFA occasions, as well as
other occasions where the chapter or state association is represented. It may be worn to
school and other appropriate places.
The jacket should only be worn to places that are appropriate for members to visit.
School letters and insignia of other organizations should not be attached to or worn on the
jacket.
When the jacket becomes faded or worn, it should be discarded or the emblems and lettering
removed.
The emblems and lettering should be removed if the jacket is given or sold to a non- member.
A member always acts like a lady or gentleman when wearing the FFA jacket or officially
representing the organization.
158. Please list three of the nine code of ethics for all FFA members.
Answer :
Dressing neatly and appropriately for the occasion.
Showing respect for the rights of others and being courteous at all times.
Being honest and not taking unfair advantage of others.
Respecting the property of others.
Refraining from loud, boisterous talk, swearing, and other unbecoming conduct.
Demonstrating sportsmanship in the show ring, judging contests, and meetings and being
modest in winning and generous in defeat.
Attending meetings promptly and respecting the opinion of others in discussion.
Taking pride in our organization, activities, supervised experience programs, exhibits, and the
occupation of agriculture.
Sharing with others experiences and knowledge gained by attending national and state
meetings.
159. Please list three of the eleven essentials of a successful FFA chapter.
Answer : Knowledge of the FFA; Diversity of membership; All members share responsibilities;
Capable officers; A challenging program of activities; A workable constitution and bylaws;
Proper equipment and records; Well-planned, regularly-held chapter meetings; Adequate
financing, School and community support; Chapter resources system.
160. Name the National FFA Executive Secretary.
Answer : Coleman Harris
161. Where is the National FFA Center located?
Answer : Alexandria, VA
162. Prior to the National FFA Center being built, who owned the property where it stands?
Answer : George Washington
163. Vocational Agriculture courses were established in what 1917 piece of legislation?
Answer : National Vocational Education Act
164. What is the official salute of the FFA Organization?
Answer : The Pledge of Allegiance
165. Which pins should be worn on the FFA jacket?
Answer : Highest degree, award and office pins
166. What do the letters WEA stand for?
Answer : Work Experience Abroad
167. What do the letters WASS stand for in the FFA?
Answer : World AgriScience Studies
168. What is the name of the FFA Organization’s magazine?
Answer : FFA New Horizons
169. What region of the National FFA Organization is Colorado in?
Answer : Western
170. Name the Colorado Association Advisor.
Answer : Ricky Sellers
171. Chapter members who want to boost their leadership skills can attend a conference in the nation’s
capital. What is the name of this program?
Answer : Washington Leadership Conference
172. Who can be elected to Honorary Chapter Farmer
Answer : People who have rendered outstanding service to the FFA chapter.
173. What FFA Emblem is the forerunner to civilization?
Answer : The plow
174. Name the six functions of feeds.
Answer :
Maintenance
Growth
Finishing
Reproduction and lactation
Work
Wool
175. Define inbreeding.
Answer : Inbreeding is the mating of animals more closely related than the average of the population
from which they came.
176. Define outcrossing
Answer : Outcrossing is the mating of animals that are members of the same breed but show no
relationship close up in the pedigree (for at least the first four or six generations.)
177. What is biomass?
Answer : The total amount of material a plant produces.
178. What are three ways in which biomass can be used for fuel?
Answer : They (plant materials) can be burned directly or converted to liquid or gaseous fuels.
179. What other valuable product is produced when alcohol is distilled from corn or other grain?
Answer : Distillers grain.
180. What are distillers grains used for?
Answer : Livestock feed.
181. Why is it necessary to continue increasing the world’s food supply?
Answer : The world’s demand for food will continue to increase as the population of the world
increases.
182. What are the three functions of roots and what are the two basic types of root systems?
Answer : They provide a firm anchor for the plants, take up water and nutrients for plant use, and
store food. There are two types of roots – fibrous, and taproots.
183. What is the function of stomates?
Answer : They regulate the flow of air and water vapor in and out of leaves.
184. What is a nomoecious plant?
Answer : The male flower and the female flower parts are in different locations on the same plant.
185. What is a diocecious plant?
Answer : The male and female flower parts are located on different plants.
186. What are the three main parts of a seed?
Answer : embryo, food supply (generally starch), seed coat (ovary wall).
187. Please list six of the elements that are considered necessary for normal plant growth.
Answer : Carbon (C ), Oxygen (O), Hydrogen (H), Nitrogen (N), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca),
Phosphorus (P), Magnesium (Mg), Sulfur (S), Iron (Fe), Chlorine (Cl), Manganese (Mn), Zinc
(Zn), Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Molybdenum (Mo).
188. What is the most valuable crop grown in the United States?
Answer : Corn
189. What is the most important grain crop grown in the world?
Answer : Wheat
190. What are three of the six types of corn?
Answer : Dent corn, flint corn, sweet corn, popcorn, flour corn, and pod corn.
191. What should be the primary goal of seedbed preparation?
Answer :
Provide optimum conditions for germination, emergence, and seedling growth.
Encourage the absorption of water
Control weeds
Preserve soil tilth
192. What is the recommended “length of cut” for making good corn silage?
Answer : ¼ inch.
193. What did Smith and Hughes do in 1917?
Answer : Started Vo-Ed
194. Name the book where most information can be found about the FFA Association.
Answer : Official FFA Manual
195. Name the motion used to stop debate and secure an immediate vote on a motion.
Answer : Call for previous question
196. Name the city where the State FFA Judging contests are held.
Answer : Fort Collins
197. In 1944 an FFA related organization was formed to allow businesses and individuals to provide
financial support to FFA Activities. What was the name of the organization?
Answer : National FFA Foundation
198. Where can a chapter obtain meeting room paraphernalia?
Answer : National FFA Supply Service
199. What is the cost of an official FFA jacket?
Answer : $42.95
200. What is the insignia for the Chapter FFA Degree?
Answer : Silver FFA Emblem pin
201. What is the Greenhand pin made from?
Answer : Bronze
202. To be a State Officer, what degree must you hold?
Answer : State FFA Degree
203. What percent of the members are promoted to the State FFA degree?
Answer : -3%
204. Name a proficiency award.
Answer : Ag Communications, Ag Mechanical Technical Systems, Ag Processing, Ag Sales and/or
Service, Beef Production, Cereal Grain Production, Dairy Production, Diversified Crop
Production, Diversified Livestock Production, Emerging Ag Technology, Environmental
Science, Equine Science, Feed Grain Production, Fiber Crop Production, Floriculture, Food
Science and Technology, Forage Production, Forest Management, Fruit and/or Vegetable
Production, Home and/or Community Development, Landscape Management, Nursery
Operations, Oil Crop Production, Outdoor Recreation, Poultry Production, Sheep Production,
Small Animal Care, Soil and Water Management, Specialty Animal Production, Specialty
Crop Production, Swine Production, Turf and Grass Management, and Wildlife Management.
205. How much money must a member earn to be eligible for the Chapter FFA Degree?
Answer : $150
206. Which is voted on first? Amend or Amendment to the Amendment?
Answer : Amendment to the Amendment
207. What do you do to correct an error in parliamentary procedure?
Answer : Rise to a point of order.
208. When can the president vote?
Answer : To break a tie.
209. How often is the National FFA Magazine published?
Answer : Every two months, or six times a year.
210. Can the local advisor vote in a meeting?
Answer : No
211. What three committees does the National President appoint annually?
Answer : Nominating, Auditing, and National Program of Activities.
212. Flax, peanuts, sunflower, and soybeans are in which proficiency area?
Answer : Oil Crop Production
213. How often should local chapter meetings be held?
Answer : Once a month.
214. What is a majority?
Answer : One over half
215. First order of business in an FFA meeting.
Answer : Opening ceremonies
216. What are the first three orders of business in an FFA meeting?
Answer : Opening ceremonies, minutes, and officer reports.
217. In what year was the FFA Creed adopted?
Answer: 1930
218. Who wrote the FFA Creed?
Answer: E.M. Tiffany
219. At what National FFA Conventions was the creed revised?
Answer: 38th & 63rd
220. What are the FFA colors?
Answer: Corn Gold & National Blue
221. In what year were the FFA colors adopted?
Answer: 1929
222. At what National Convention was the FFA Creed Adopted?
Answer: 3rd
223. Vocational Agriculture classes were established by what act?
Answer: Smith-Hughes National Vocational Education Act
224. In what year were Vocational Agriculture classes established?
Answer: 1917
225. In what year was the National FFA organization established?
Answer: 1928
226. Where was the FFA established?
Answer: The Hotel Baltimore in Kansas City, Missouri
227. In what year was the National FFA Foundation, Inc. founded?
Answer: 1944
228. In what year was the National FFA Alumni Association established?
Answer: 1971
229. What year did the Colorado FFA Association receive its chapter?
Answer: 1929
230. What did public law 740 do?
Answer: Granted the FFA a Federal Chapter
231. In what year was public law 740 passed?
Answer: 1950
232. In what year was the National Future Farmer magazine first published?
Answer: 1952
233. In what year did the U.S. Post Office issue an FFA stamp?
Answer: 1953
234. In what year did the FFA and the NFA merge?
Answer: 1965
235. In what year were women allowed in the FFA?
Answer: 1969
236. What did NFA stand for?
Answer: New Farmers of America
237. In what year did delegates at the National FFA Convention change the “Future Farmers of America”
to the “National FFA Organization”?
Answer: 1988
238. In what year did the name of the FFA Organizations magazine change?
Answer: 1989
239. What is the name of the FFA Organizations magazine?
Answer: FFA New Horizons
240. What is the FFA motto?
Answer: Learning to do, Doing to learn, Earning to live, Living to serve.
241. Who is known as the Father of the FFA?
Answer: Henry C. Groseclose
242. Who was the first National FFA President?
Answer: Leslie Applegate
243. Who was selected as the first Star Farmer of America?
Answer: Carlton Patton
244. Who is the National FFA Advisor?
Answer: Dr. Larry Case
245. How many FFA regions are there in the U.S.?
Answer: 4
246. What National FFA region is Colorado in?
Answer: Western
247. How many National FFA Officers are elected each year?
Answer: Six
248. What are the four types of FFA membership?
Answer: Active, Alumni, Collegiate, and Honorary
249. Name the four FFA Degrees in order?
Answer: Greenhand, Chapter, State, American
250. How many medals can be worn on the Official FFA jacket, and what types of medals are they?
Answer: 3 medals may be worn; Highest Office, Highest Degree, and Highest Award.
251. Who can wear the Official FFA jacket?
Answer: Members Only
252. Where is the National FFA center located?
Answer: Indianapolis, Indiana
253. Where is the National FFA headquarters?
254. Answer: Alexandria, Virginia
255. Where will the 72nd National FFA Convention be held?
Answer: Louisville, Kentucky
256. Who is the 1999-2000 National FFA President?
Answer: Lisa Ahrens
257. Who is the Colorado FFA State Advisor?
Answer: Ricky Sellers
258. Who is the Colorado FFA State President?
Answer: Clint Wedel
259. How many taps of the gavel are used to call a meeting to order?
Answer: 2 Taps
260. What does three taps of the gavel signify?
Answer: All members should stand in unison on the third tap.
261. What are the National FFA dues?
Answer: $5.00
262. What are the Colorado FFA dues?
Answer: $5.00
263. What do the letters P.O.A. stand for?
Answer: Program of Activities
