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Agricultural Proficiency
Awards Program

The Agricultural
Proficiency Award program recognizes excellence in supervised agricultural experience (SAE) programs. FFA members are rewarded at
the local, state and national levels for exceptional accomplishments in
progressing toward agricultural careers
FFA members can select from two proficiency award categories. The “placement”
category is for work or experience-only SAE programs, such as working at a
nursery or as an employee on a hog farm. The “entrepreneurship,” category is for
programs that typically involve ownership of an agricultural production or
agribusiness enterprise. Such SAE programs could include crop or livestock
production, a custom hay baling business, lawn mowing business, etc.
One easy way to determine the difference
between these two is ownership. For example, a student who works as a paid
employee on a hog farm has a "placement" program; a student who owns and
produces the hogs has an "entrepreneurship" program. Categories are
combined in areas where neither is noted.

State Awards
Plaques for the top three individuals in South
Dakota in addition to $50 to the second place individual and $25 to the third
place individual ($100 to the high individual comes from the National FFA if
application competes nationally, or by SD FFA Foundation if application does not) are
awarded through $250 sponsorships to the South Dakota FFA Foundation for
Proficiency award areas. If individuals are chosen as National Finalists,
the sponsorship also covers a $100 travel scholarship for their interview at
National FFA Convention in Indianapolis, IN.
South Dakota FFA
2008 Agricultural Proficiency Area Sponsors
(E = Entrepreneurship, P = Placement)
Ag
Communications - E/P |
Tri State
Neighbor, Sioux Falls |
| Ag Education - E/P |
Lon Moeller Family |
Ag Mechanics
Design and Fabrication - E/P |
Cammack
Ranch Supply, Union Center |
Ag Mechanics
Repair and Maintenance - E/P |
Butler
Machinery Company |
Ag Mechanics
Energy Systems - E/P |
SD FFA Foundation
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Ag
Processing - E/P |
SD
Soybean Processors, Volga |
Ag Sales – E |
Legend
Seed, De Smet |
Ag Sales – P |
Hojer Gelbvieh Ranch, Lake Preston
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Ag Services
- E/P |
Midwest
Cooperatives, Pierre
Northern Plains Cooperative, Gettysburg
Eastern Farmers Cooperative, Garretson
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| Aquaculture - E/P |
SD FFA Foundation, Inc. |
Beef
Production – E
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Jensen
Charolais, Lake Preston
Odden
Charolais Ranch, Lake Preston
Stewart
Charolais, Lake Preston
Vedvei
Charolais, Lake Preston
Wienk
Charolais, Lake Preston
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Beef
Production – P |
SD
Cattleman's Association |
Dairy
Production – E |
SD FFA Foundation, Inc. |
Dairy
Production – P |
Associated Milk Producers Inc.
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Diversified
Crop Production – E |
Golden
Harvest |
Diversified
Crop Production – P |
Syngenta and NK Seeds |
Diversified
Horticulture – E |
SD FFA
Foundation, Inc.
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Diversified
Livestock Production – E |
McFleeg
Feeds
First
Dakota National Bank of Yankton
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Diversified
Livestock Production – P |
Sioux
Nation Ag Center of SD and IA |
Diversified
Ag Production - E/P |
Lake Preston Cooperative
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Emerging Ag
Technology - E/P |
Kimball Livestock Exchange, Kimball
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Environ. Sci.
and Natural Resources Mgmt. - E/P |
SD Assn
of Conservation Districts |
Equine
Science – E |
Amani
Arabians, Kim Niven and Tim Anderson |
Equine
Science – P |
Scott
Cammack, Sturgis
Dawn Nagel, Onaka
Susan Stoterau
Webster FFA
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Fiber and/or
Oil Crop Production - E/P |
SD
Soybean Research and Promotion Council
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Floriculture
- E/P |
Norm and
Mary Rae Peterson, Montrose
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Food Science
and Technology - E/P |
Milbank Community Foundation
SD FFA Foundation, Inc.
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Forage
Production - E/P |
Kuecker
Seed Farm, Inc., Webster
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Forest
Management and Products - E/P |
SD FFA
Foundation, Inc.
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Fruit
Production - E/P |
MinnTex,
Windom, MN
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Grain
Production – E |
SD Corn
Utilization Council |
Grain
Production – P |
SD Wheat
Commission |
Home and/or
Community Development - E/P |
Monsanto
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Landscape
Management - E/P |
SD FFA
Foundation, Inc. |
Nursery
Operations - E/P |
SD FFA
Foundation, Inc.
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Outdoor
Recreation – E/P |
Schoenbeck Law, Watertown and
Jack's Campers, Mitchell
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Poultry
Production - E/P |
SD FFA
Foundation, Inc.
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Sheep
Production - E/P
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Newell
Ram Sale
Iowa Lamb
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Small Animal
Production and Care – E/P |
Mike McIntyre, Winfred
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Specialty
Animal Production – E/P |
Roger DeRouchey and
SD FFA Foundation, Inc.
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Specialty
Crop Production - E/P
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Howe
Seeds, Inc, McLaughlin
Hansmeier
& Son, Inc., Bristol
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Swine
Production – E |
SD Pork
Producers Council |
Swine
Production – P |
Murphy
Farms and Clark County Contract Growers
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Turf Grass
Management – E/P |
Croplan Genetics
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Vegetable
Production - E/P |
In Memory
of Bill and Stella Hanson by Clark and Lyla Hanson, and SD FFA
Foundation, Inc.
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Wildlife
Production and Mgmt – E |
Cabela's
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Wildlife
Production and Mgmt – P |
Craig
and Maure Weinkauf, In Memory
of Arthur J. Weinkauf, Watertown
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