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Agricultural Proficiency Awards Program

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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.

FFA member floriculture project

State Awards

Plaques for the top three individuals in South Dakota in addition to $100 to the second place individual and $50 to the third place individual ($250 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 $500 sponsorships to the South Dakota FFA Foundation for Proficiency award areas.  If individuals are chosen as National Finalists, the sponsorship also covers a travel scholarship for their interview at National FFA Convention.

SD FFA Agricultural Proficiency Area Sponsors and Finalists


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For more information, please contact gerri@sdffafoundation.org. or call (605) 765-4865
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