Central Vet Clinic supports West Marshall FFA

Dr Aimee Rueber, representing Central Vet Clinic of Melbourne presents a certificate to West Marshall FFA Chapter President, Jake Goecke. For the sixth year, Zoetis is partnering with veterinarians, animal health suppliers and dealer customers to support students by providing a portion of proceeds from eligible purchases of Zoetis cattle and equine products.

Aged II students

Students test soil water holding capacity.

New Year

With the start of the new year,  the greenhouse project is in full swing.  Thanks to the WM School Board for their support in this exciting time.

2014 Central Iowa Fair

Last week was the Central Iowa Fair.  The West Marshall FFA Chapter had many success all week long. Congrats to Ben Newhouse for exhibiting the champion pair of lambs and reserve senior showmanship.  Ashleigh Metzger had champion purebred ewe and champion Suffolk ewe.  Cody Freland was champion senior showmanship and champion in two dairy breeds. In the beef show congrats to Matt Blink, Madde Green for their excellent job with your steers.  Jared Johnson showed the Champion cow/calf pair.  Also, congrats to Sadie and Samie Simatovich on their heifers and cow calf pairs.  Katherine Newhouse had champion. Chi heifer and was champion senior showmanship in the beef division.  In the swine show Jake Goecke had champion derby barrow and was named champion overall derby pig. Jake also was named champion senior showmanship.  William Ohrt and Jessica Tuttle both did excellent in the horse show.  To finish the fair the supreme showmanship contest brings all the Champion Senior showmanship winners for a round robin finally.  The West Marshall FFA had four of the six spots competing for Supreme Showman.  Cody Freland, Katherine Newhouse, Jake Goecke and Ben Newhouse competed with Katherine receiving the champion award and Jake getting reserve honors.  Way to go to the whole FFA Chapter.

Rose Festival 2014

FFA members get ready for the parade.

Ag mechanics

Congrats to the West Marshall FFA Age Mechanics team for getting 8th place Gold Rating. Team members were Dale Hilleman, Tyler Casady, Cole Gilmore.  Cole was also the 10th place individual.

Another Year Comes to An END!!

Congratulations to the WM FFA Graduates

Mathew Blink

Dylan Childs

Jennifer Davis

Kelsey DeBruyn

Blake Edler

Carolyn Edler

Cody Freland

Jeffry Henze

Lane Kline

William Ohrt

Nick Overman

Iowa FFA Convention

Tyler Casady, Cody Freland, Dylan Childs, Maggie Taft, Samie Simatovich, Madde Green package meals for the heartland service project

FFA members drive Tractors to School for National Ag Day

District Career Development Events Today

Good luck to Dylan Childs and Georgia Porter as they compete today in Garner. 

Vet Science Class Sews it Up!

The Vet Science class is practicing the proper way to suture and animal.  

Ag Ed 1 Water Movement

Ag Ed 1 students are studying how water moves through the water cycle. Students see how precipitation falls on the surface of the Earth, it does not always percolate
through the soil into the groundwater. Sometimes it flows into lakes, rivers, streams,
and even all the way to the ocean. Landforms, such as mountains, valleys, and
slopes, interrupt and direct the flow of water in predictable patterns. Topography is
the study of landforms and the shape of the surface of the Earth

The West Marshall FFA Chapter had four individuals compete in Sub-district CDE on Monday Feb 24th at Aplington Parkersburg High School. Dylan Childs competed in Ag Sales and received a Silver Rating. Madde Green recited the FFA Creed and received a Bronze Rating. Georgia Porter preformed a Radio Broadcast and received a Gold Rating.  In the Extemporaneous Speaking Ashleigh Metzger received a Silver Rating.  Dylan and Georgia both advanced to District Competition to be held in March. Ashleigh was selected to be an Alternate for Districts.

West Marshall FFA Chapter Officers

2013 - 2014 Chapter Officers

(Left to Right) Matt Blink, Jeffry Henze, Carolyn Edler, Dylan Childs, 

Jamie Flynn, Jennifer Davis, Mr Carolan

West Marshall FFA Chapter Picture

2013-2014 Chapter Picture

Farm Business Management Class

It is hard to get a picture of students doing more than working on assignments in class but the Farm Business Management class has been busy developing crop enterprise budgets for different production techniques.  This help students decided how fixed and variable cost change your profit margin.

Ag Ed 1 Soil Texture Lesson

Today Ag Ed 1 students learn about soil texture using pure samples of sand, silt and clay.  Students then learned how to do a Soil Ribbon Test to determine soil texture.

Ag Ed 1: CASE Lesson 4.1.3 Moving the Earth

Students learned today how streams and rivers are formed. They also learned about reduction and addition of soils that are influenced by rain fall.

Environmental Science Class

Students look at Point and Non Point Pollution will learning about water quality.

Vet Science Class

Students in Vet Science Class learn about depth and perception during an animal handling unit.

Soil Pore Space

Students preform a lab to look at different soil porosity based off soil types.

Vet Science

Students present there concept maps of the specific animal systems.  These maps included organs, functions and relationships with other systems.

Environmental Science Class

Students in Environmental Science Class learn how water creates and shapes our soils.  Students used stream tables to show how rainfall can eroded and create channels in soils.

Vet Science...

Students in Vet Science Class draw posters animals and label the parts of the animals.  Students then presented the posters to the class.

Ag Ed 1 Extract Strawberry DNA

Ag Ed 1 students extract DNA from Strawberries will learning about traits and heredity within animals and plants.

Landscaping Class Final Projects

Landscaping class students drafted landscapes of their homes and created 3-D models and bill of materials for the Semester Final.  Each student drew a blueprint, constructed a 3-D model to scale.  After the construction students created a bill of materials and developed a budget for their landscape. The photos show some of the students models.