Our first FFA Float Night!
Sonoma County Fair, 2023-2024
Analy’s Future Farmers of America had 37 members (Including incoming freshmen and graduate students) who participated in showing an animal at the County Fair. We would like to recognize our wonderful members’ accomplishments and wish our members showing next year, good luck!
Congratulations to all of the following:
Hog Exhibitors:
Alex Dobbelmann (9th grade), Champion Market Hog-Light (All Other Breeds), Reserve Champion Market Hog- Dark Cross Breed, Champion Novice Showmanship.
Hollie Hemphill (9), Reserve Champion Berkshire, and 5th place Freshman Showmanship
ailey Cassady (10th grade), 5th place Sophomore Showmanship, Marcos Ornelas (11th grade), 4th place Novice Showmanship, Nathen Dooley (12th grade), Reserve Champion Duroc, and 1st place Senior Showmanship, Sienna Ficher (9), 2nd place Freshman Showmanship, Bradie McCallum (11), 2nd place Junior Showmanship.
Other Analy Market Hog Exhibitors:
Ava Anderson (10), Ariana Avila (9), Landon Avila (Junior), Hannah Campanile (12), Angelo Escutia (9), Orion Green (10), Phoenix Green (8th grade), Evelyn Horton (10), Addison Johnson (9), Bella Jurek (9), Owen Lessard (10), Andrew McCallum (9), Billy Medeiros (11), Neveah Molina (9), Elaina Moran (10), Nova Sousa (9), Zane Symmonds (10), David Trujillo (9).
Breeding Hog Exhibitor:
Alex Justus (Past Graduate), Supreme Champion Boar
Market Steer Exhibitors:
Gracie Ascoop (9), Champion Shorthorn and 3rd place overall FFA market steer, Hannah Campanile (12), 2nd place medium weight Hereford, Rebecca Ficco (11), 2nd in Juinor Class and 5th place overall FFA Showmanship (AOB Heavy Weight), Callie Ivaldi (11), 3rd place medium weight Angus and 2nd place AOB lightweight, Delany Medeiros (9), 3rd place lightweight crossbreed, Caleigh Wilkes (12), 1st place lightweight crossbred.
Breeding Steer Exhibitors:
Gracie Ascoop (9), Champion CowCorw Calf Pair, Analise Scholten (Past Graduate), Supreme Grand Champion Commercial Heifer, Caleigh Wilkes (12), Callie Ivaldi (11)
Sheep & Goat Exhibitors:
Caleigh Wilkes (12) Champion Advanced Goat Showman, Reserve Grand Champion FFA Goat Showman, Jake Anderson (12), 6th Overall Senior, Gracie Ascoop (9), 4th overall Freshman, Rebecca Ficco (11), Reserve Grand Champion FFA Sheep Showman, Champion Junior, Cole Francheschi (12), 4th Overall Senior, Stella Treble (11), Reserve Champion FFA Novice Sheep Showman, 10th Overall FFA
Market Lamb Exhibitors:
Rebecca Ficco (11), Reserve Champion FFA Market Lamb Overall (Champion Hampshire), Jake Anderson (12), 6th Overall FFA Market Lamb (Champion Natural), 2nd place Hamp, Cole Franceschi (12), 8th Overall FFA Market Lamb (Champion Dorset & Ron Olson Memorial Award Winner), 1st place Crossbreed, Gracie Ascoop (9), 2nd place Crossbred, Stella Treble (11), 7th place Crossbred.
Breeding Lamb Exhibitors:
Rebecca Ficco (11), Grand Champion Wether Dam Ewe, Grand Champion FFA Showmanship, 2 class winning Wether Dam Ewes, Landen Smith (12), 4th overall FFA Showmanship, 3rd place Southdown Ewe, 6th place Wether Dam Ewe
Poultry Exhibitor:
Kasie Coupe (9)
Breeding Poultry Exhibitor:
Alex Justus (Past Graduate), Won Poultry Showmanship and won the champion honors, Caleigh Wilkes (12)
Breeding Rabbit Exhibitor:
Hannah Campanile (12), 3rd place showmanship
Meat Rabbit Exhibitor:
Shellie Hance (11), Champion FFA, 2024 Reserve Supreme Meat Pen, and 1st in Novice Showmanship
Meat Rabbit Exhibitor:
Shellie Hance (11), Champion FFA, 2024 Reserve Supreme Meat Pen, and 1st in Novice Showmanship
Horse Exhibitors:
Caleigh Wilkes (12), Youth Western High Point, and Overall Youth High Point Titles, Hollie Hemphill (9), 1st place in Showmanship Class
2024-2025 FFA Officer Team:
Every year FFA interviews and elect 6 different individuals to fill the chapter officer team. These positions take responsibility, maturity, and teamwork. For the 2024-5 year FFA is proud to announce:
President: Shellie Hance
Vice President: Angelo Escutia
Secretary: Gracie Ascoop
Treasurer: Devin Gall
Reporter: Kasie Coupe
Sentinel: Ava Anderson
To learn about what FFA officers are putting on, check out their Instagram or Facebook page.
New to the Agriculture Teachers team is
Ms. Maren Powers who is teaching Ag Chem, Intro to Ag, and Work Experience. She joins two AG teachers from last year, Mrs. Lokka and Ms. King.
Although Mrs. Mickelson is missed, Ms. King has done a great job at taking over. Let’s wish all of our AG teachers a great year!
Greenhand Leadership Conference:
On September 25th, 15 new members from the Analy chapter attended the annual conference, the very first a freshman or first-year FFA member can attend. GLC is mostly targeted to all freshmen whether or not they have Ag experience. Members that attended this meeting were, Clare Maloney, John Justus, Trenton Willis, Ryan Saladana Sweeley, Talia Hager, Jenna Hance, Peyton Love, Tanner Moran, Sawer Wood, Marcos Marquez, Harlyn Menendez, Heather Shoburt, Kevin Garcia Reyna, Issac Rivas-Ambriz,
Chapter Officer Leadership Conference:
On September 23rd, the newly elected officer team spent two days in Ukiah attending workshops, connecting with other leaders, and dancing the night away. The club is proud of its two Regional Officers, Bailey Cassady and Jesus Martinez Diaz, for doing a great job with their Regional Officer workshops and hosting the entire conference. The State FFA Officer team, the NCR Officer team, Potter Valley High School, and all of the AG teachers for hosting a successful Chapter Officer Leadership Conference (COLC).
Redwood Region Resource Rally Industry Conference:
On September 12th, we had fourteen of our juniors and seniors attend the Redwood Region Resource Rally Industry Conference. They learned a lot about forestry and natural resources and were able to be very hands-on while learning how to identify, weigh, and measure fish, as well as learn about the importance of keeping streams healthy for our fish! They then attended a presentation where they listened to those who work in the industry talk about their jobs. They were able to see a tree cutter fall a tree and then see how the heavy equipment driver moved the tree. After doing so they were presented on the topic of heavy equipment. They had the opportunity to learn about work in the shop and the job of a logging truck driver. Finally, they ended their day learning how to measure and calculate broad feet to estimate how much lumber would be harvested from each tree. Overall, this conference was extremely informative and beneficial to those who want to work in a wood-based industry, aquatic-based, or don’t know yet! We are very thankful for all the people who came and presented to our lovely students, and another thanks to all of our instructors and tour guides! We can’t wait to see you next year with new Juniors and Seniors.
Tri-Tip BBQ Fundraiser:
On Tuesday, September 17th, we held our annual fall Tri-Tip Drive Thru-BBQ! We would first like to thank everyone who ordered and volunteered in order to make this fundraiser possible. We had a huge success! The profits made off this fundraiser will be going towards the funding for our members attending the 97th Annual National FFA Convention. Thank you to our sponsors and donors; Cotati Food Service, Ryan Deering, Sebastopol Hardware Center, Bill Baxman, Sons Hay & Straw, Baxman Family Livestock, and Grandma Patti’s Farm Fresh Eggs for helping make this event possible. We truly appreciate it! We look forward
to our future fundraisers and events.
Livestock Judging Competitions (Fall):
On Thursday, October 3rd, our wonderful coach Mrs. Lokka and her livestock judging team had a competition at Cow Palace. There are 7 students on our Livestock Judging Team; Angelo Escutia, Shellie Hance, John Justus, Ian Huffaker, Clare Maloney, Harlyn Mendez, and Ryan Saldana Sweeley. Here is some recognition of how our students did at the contest. Shellie Hance (Senior), 5th overall individual, and 4th high individual in beef.
Chapter Meetings:
Our 2024-2025 officer team has currently put on 2 chapter meetings this school year. We are
proud to announce we have shared various information with members of our chapter, as well as providing them pizza! We have started a new way to engage our members to have more motivation to attend our chapter meetings, as instead of having them sit on the bleachers and listen to our officers talk, we started making videos! Every AG teacher shows their classes the video, and when the chapter meeting finally comes, we can play a game! Also, we have more time to serve pizza! For this month’s game, we chose a huge game of rock, paper, scissors. Our members had a blast playing this! We can’t wait for our member’s reactions to next month’s game!
Opening/Closing Ceremonies:
If you haven’t heard, on October 16th, at the Cloverdale Citrus Fairgrounds we have 3 advanced teams, 2 novice teams, and our officer team participating in a speaking contest. There are six positions assigned to each individual, and depending on their role, they must recite their lines word for word. This year our officer team has a debate for this Opening/Closing contest. This year we are debating on having a community service night at the Redwood Empire Food Bank. Three of our officers approve, and two don’t. Our President will proceed to vote on the motion that we will be hosting a community service night at the Redwood Empire Food Bank! We have already begun practices, and we can’t wait to win it all. Good luck to all of our teams!
National Convention 2024:
On October 22nd-26th, current members Gracie Ascoop and Devin Gall are attending the National Convention; . Also five graduated members, Gabriel De Loza Sanchez, Colton Shaw, Alonso Vera, Analise Scholten, and Tucker Pacatte are getting their American Degrees!
