AG Apps 1.01

The floriculture CDE primarily allows students to:

• earn money while working
• develop technical knowledge
• develop confidence in giving a speech
• identify trees used for pulpwood

Many professional agricultural organizations require their members to:

• attend weekly meetings
• give a percentage of their profits to the organization
• pay membership dues
• take an oath

Public Law 740 passed by Congress in 1950 granted the FFA:

• a new purpose
• a federal charter
• unlimited money
• a new name

Which activity is MOST helpful in developing poise, confidence, and leadership?

• Cleaning up the school grounds
• Identifying trees in a forestry class
• Making an oral presentation or speech
• Moving plants in a nursery

At which CDE is a student given 30 minutes to prepare a speech on an ag topic and then present that speech to a panel of judges?

• Agricultural Sales
• Extemporaneous Public Speaking
• Prepared Public Speaking
• The FFA Creed

Courses in vocational ag were established in 1917 by the:

• Smith-Hughes Act
• Smith-Jones Act
• Mary Smith Act
• John Smith Act

Which organization is MOST LIKELY agricultural related?

• Boy Scouts
• The Grange
• Hot Rod Association
• Red Hat Society

Girls were allowed in the FFA in:

• 1929
• 1943
• 1951
• 1969

A goal of MOST professional agricultural organizations is to:

• create more paperwork
• keep membership down by raising the amount of dues members have to pay
• maintain the old methods of farming
• update its members on new methods, products, and technology

Which FFA CDE requires participants to grade and evaluate egg and chicken products?

• Parliamentary procedure
• Dairy judging
• Poultry judging
• Public speaking