FFA Dairy Judging

The Castleford FFA Chapter recently won the South Magic Valley FFA District Dairy Cattle Evaluation Career Development Event (CDE). Team members, left to right, were Hannah Gaalswyk, Eden Schilder, Taya De Kruyf, Zander Schilder, Evan Fontes, Luke Kaes, and Dacian Nunes. Not pictured is team member Josie Zimmers.

For this event, students had to judge various breeds of dairy cattle, give oral reasons on their placings, take a timed test on dairy cattle records, and then conduct body condition scoring on a set of cows. Nunes placed 8^th-high overall, De Kruyf placed 7^th-high overall, Zander Schilder placed 6^th-high overall, Eden Schilder placed 5^th-high overall, Gaalswyk placed 4^th-high overall, Zimmers placed 2^nd-high overall, and Fontes was 1^st high-overall.