Hughes Springs forestry prepares for Area Contest

The Hughes Springs FFA Forestry Team has been busy the last few weeks and have had some great success. This group of students have competed at the Red River Army Depot Invitational on March 16th at the Army Depot, the McLeod FFA/Hope 4-H Forestry Invitational at Crow-Heath Park in Linden on March 23rd and finally the Marion/Cass NRCS Woodland District Contest on March 24th at Wright Patman Lake. At Red River, the students placed 5th and 7th as teams out of 15. The next week at the invitational, the Teams placed 9th and 14th out of 29 teams. The students learned from their experiences over those two contests and at the District Meet on Lake Wright Patman, placed 1st and 4th. The 1st Place finish awarded one team from Hughes Springs FFA the right to compete at the State Contest held in Nacogdoches, TX on April 27th. Also at the District Contest, Kayloni Carroll received the honor of high point FFA student for the contest in our district. These students will compete again on April 6th at the Area VI FFA Contest at NTCC for a chance to qualify another team to compete at the State Contest. This will be the second year in a row that Hughes Springs FFA has advanced to the State Contest.

The first place district team consisted off: Kayloni Carroll, Colton Tigert, Hunter Brabham, and Justin Hall. The fourth place district team consisted of: Samantha Dennis, Brandie Duck, Treston Taylor, Camden Skinner, and alternate Logan Skipper.