which SAE type is based around being your own boss and your own enterprise?

in what year was the FFA code of Ethics adopted

in 1959, the national future farmer magazine changed its name to what?

The FFA emblem consists of all of the following symbols, except which?

the FFA salute is what?

to be eligible for the state FFA degree, members must

which is not a division of the program of actvities

how many high school chapters are chosen each year as a model of excellence award winner?

SAE grants provide how much to members who need financial assistance to begin or expand their SAE enterprise

premier leadership is defined as

how many students national officers are there?

the national FFA foundation, Ic. was created in 1944 to provide funds from business and ______ to support new programs

in what year was the national FFA center dedicated in Indianapolis, Indiana?

who served as the national ffa presidnet in 1955-1956?

what type of principles give purpose to parliamentary procedure?

which of the following is not criteria for selecting members of the chapter conducting team?

A _____ is a minumum number of members who must be present at a meeting for the valid transaction of business to occur

Motions must be voted upon in ________ order.

How many steps are there in presenting a motion?

How many main motions may be before the chapter at any one time?

To permit a chapter to do something that cannot be done without violating the standing

rules, they must what?

Which is not a pertinent fact of a Parliamentary Inquiry?

The purpose of this motion is to termite the meeting.

The fourth step in presenting an item of business is?

Which is not an acceptable method of voting?

Unanimous votes are also known as what type of vote?

Members may change their votes until when?

A president should ______ leave the chair and take part in debate.

A financial report from the treasurer is _____ acted upon by the chapter.

How many campuses are there across the state that offer instruction in Agriculture, Food

and Natural Resources?

Every Foundational SAE will provide experiences in _____ components as a graded part

of each of your agricultural education courses.

In 2015, the ____ anniversary of the FFA/NFA was celebrated.

The Texas FFA Foundation Capital Campaign kicked off at which Texas FFA

Convention?

Which state officer for the 2020-2021 year is from Area II?

There are currently how many areas represented in the state of Texas?

In what year was Texas represented by an American Star Finalist in the Star Awards?

In what grades are Greenhand Creed Speakers eligible to compete?

In what region will the 2021 Wildlife CDE contest be hosted?

Who is the State SDE Advisory Committee Superintendent?

What is the minimum score a FFA member may have on the SAT in order to be eligible

for a Texas FFA Scholarship?

How many career clusters are in Career and Technical Education?

Who serves as the membership coordinator for the Texas FFA?

Each chapter is entitled to send ___ delegate from its active membership plus one

additional delegate for 50 members or any fraction thereof above the first 50 members.

Who serves as a co-chair with Dr. Doug Ullrich for the state Leadership Development

Event Committee?

In what year was the economic census created?

The millennial generation includes how many farmers?

What percentage of United States farms market foods locally, through

direct-to-consumer or intermediated sales.

What percentage of disposable income does France spend on food?

The Beef Checkoff Program is a ________-funded marketing and research program

designed to increase domestic and/or international demand for beef.

How many days does it take for chicks to hatch?

Which breed of dairy cattle originated in Scotland?

What is meat called that comes from mature goats?

How many chromosomes do sheep have?

You can tell how old a horse is by looking at its what?

Rough Stock events include all of the following except:

Texas is the leading hides and skins exporting state, adding how much to the economy?

High Fructose Corn Syrup is derived from what?

How many hours of labor was needed to produce 100 bushels of wheat in 1930?

Which of the following crops provides similar benefits as oats and barley, and is an

option for fodder production?

Ag Issues Briefs:

“The Farm Bill” is the commonly known name for what?

The 2018 Farm Bill has 12 titles. Which is number 7?

Between 2019 and 2023, more than 76% of the farm bill spending is projected to go

toward what program?

NAFTA is a comprehensive economic and trade agreement that established a free-trade

area between the U.S., Canada and which other country?

The term “pesticides” refers to many types of crop protection products including?

All of the following share the responsibility for the regulation of pesticides, except:

What is a key technology utilized in precision agriculture?

Organic food differs from conventionally produced food only in the way it is...

How many wild horses and burros currently roam 27 million acres of western public

land?

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), what type of energy is the world’s

fastest-growing energy technology?

71. Every ____ years, the farm bill expires.

How many phases are there included in the farm bill process?

Which of the following is not a permanent provision of the Tax Cuts and Job Act?

Which of the following technologies keep farmers on the cutting edge of agriculture?

Which of the following is NOT a highly trained and educated individual that offers crop

production and pest management recommendations to farmers?

Tre/False:

There are three divisions that make up the program of activities?

The FFA is structured on 5 levels.

There are 7 types of Supervised Agricultural Experiences.

Middle school FFA members are those in grades 6-9.

The NFA and FFA merged in 1965.

The first state meeting of the NFA was in Virginia in 1928.

Harold Gum resigned his office as National FFA President to join the military.

President Jimmy Carter spoke at the 51st National FFA Convention.

The Future Farmers of America changed its name to the National FFA Organization in

1988.

The cross section ear of corn provides the foundation for the FFA jacket.

California was the 4th state to receive their FFA charter.

State associations may consider secondary agricultural education programs to be

grades 3-12.

To be eligible to receive the State FFA Degree from the state association, a member

must have completed the equivalent of 460 hours of systemic school instruction in

agricultural education at or above the ninth grade level.

The procedure for equating hours worked with dollars earned and productively invested

for the American FFA degree is by multiplying the hours worked by a factor of 3.56.

The National Quality FFA Chapter Standards include 14 indicators.

GRAY’S PARLIAMENTARY GUIDE:

To be an effective leader, a presiding officer should possess 8 characteristics.

The fourth step in presenting a motion is seconding the motion.

In basic parliamentary law, the maker or presenter of any debatable motion should be

called on last by the presiding officer to debate the motion.

Debate must be limited to the immediately pending question, which is the last question

stated by the president.

If a two-thirds vote is required, either a rising or majority vote should be taken.

The purpose of referring to a committee is to temporarily delay action on an item of

business.

An announcement of a vote and an answer to a parliamentary inquiry are decisions of

the chair, and therefore cannot be appealed from.

You may interrupt a speaker when calling division of the assembly.

The proposer of a motion may withdraw or modify his/her motion without consent of

anyone after the chair has stated it.

Take from the table is undebatable and amendable.

A financial report from the treasurer is not acted upon by the chapter.

Following the approval of the minutes, the president should then sign them.

To abstain is to publicly refrain from debating.

The executive board is the body of elected or appointed members who jointly

oversee the activities of a company or organization.

There are 5 classifications of motions.

Leadership Guide:

There are 31 AFNR courses which provide rigorous and challenging opportunities for

more than 191,833 young Texans.

Agricultural Literacy is not a component of a Foundational SAE.

There were 22 schools approved to teach vocational agriculture in the 1917-1918 school

year.

Jay Eudy was the first chairman of the Texas FFA Board of Directors.

Richard Wallrath made Texas FFA history by becoming the Texas FFA Foundation’s

all-time leading contributor by giving more than $1.5 million.

Texas High School Foundation endorsements include STEM, Business and Industry,

Public Services, Arts and Humanities, and Multidisciplinary Studies.

The selection of Immersion SAEs should align to and support your career interest

defined in your career plan.

President Woodrow Wilson signed the Smith-Hughes Act into law on February 22, 2917.

In 1972, Fred McClure of San Antonio became the first African-American member to

serve as president of the Texas FFA.

Delegates at the 90th Texas FFA Convention voted to merge Collegiate and Alumni FFA

into one entity.

The current chairperson of the Texas FFA Association Board of Directors is Tammy

Christian of Penelope.

The Executive Director of the Texas FFA Board of Directors is Tom Maynard.

Isabella Yoder represents Area VI as a Texas FFA Vice President.

The number of districts within each area of the state association is four to seven.

According to state bylaws, re-alignment must be considered every five years.

Farm Facts:

The Texas Commissioner of Agriculture is Bob Hall.

Census of Agriculture data is used to allocate local and national funds for farm

programs.

Farm and ranch families comprise just 2% of the United States population.

The retail trade industry accounts for 12.4 cents of every dollar spent on food.

The average age of Texas farmers and ranchers is 68 years old.

There are currently 29 cuts of beef that meet government guidelines for lean such as

tenderloin, sirloin and 95% lean ground beef.

Broilers are ranked third in Texas in terms of cash receipts.

A withdrawal period is required of antibiotics, therefore ensuring that no residues are

present in a bird’s system at the time of processing.

It takes 39 cups of milk to make .5 pound of butter.

Milk contains 18 essential nutrients.

The insulin hormone used to treat diabetes in humans is found in pig pancreas glands.

There are four major categories of wool: long wool, fine wool, medium wool and carpet

wool.

Ruminants have four-compartment stomachs.

Dairy goats have a life span of approximately 8 to 14 years.

The majority of Texas corn production goes to exports.

Ag Issues Briefs:

The Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (commonly known as the farm bill)

reauthorizes through Fiscal Year 2023.

Every four years the farm bill expires and is updated: proposed, debated, and passed by

Congress and then signed into law by the President.

The 2018 Farm Bill has 11 titles to include: Commodities, Conservation, Trade, Nutrition,

Credit, Rural Development, Research, Forestry, Energy, Horticulture and Crop

Insurance.

Members of Congress who sit on the Senate and House Committees on Agriculture,

Nutrition, and Forestry hold the primary responsibility of drafting farm bills.

The Farm Bill provides permanent funding for the Beginning Farmer and Rancher

Development Program (BFRDP) and the “2501” program for socially disadvantaged,

veteran and beginning farmers and ranchers through the new Farming Opportunities

Training and Outreach (FOTO) program.

Pesticides gone through some 120 health, safety and environmental tests to ensure their

safety and effectiveness before being registered by the FDA.

According to the USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS), animal products account

for the majority (51 percent) of the value of U.S. agricultural products, exceeding $100

billion per quarter.

Food and Mouth Disease (FMD) is a severe, and a highly communicable viral disease of

cattle, swine, and other cloven-hoofed animals.

Nanotechnology materials are available to consumers, included in golf clubs, tennis

balls, sunscreens, and cosmetics.

According to the Bureau of Land Management, the lifetime cost of caring for a single

horse in an off-range facility is approximately $45,000.

According to the U.S. Department of Energey (DOE), wind energy is the world’s

fastest-growing energy technology.

Currently, the United States leads the world in wind energy production.

There are four phases of the farm bill process: reauthorization, appropriation,

rulemakeing, and outreach and evaluation.

Between 2018 and 2023, more than 76 percent of the farm bill pending, or $326 billion,

is projected to go toward nutrition programs.

Title 10 of the Farm Bill is directed towards horticulture.