Our Ripon High FFA has been actively working hard to raise and prepare their animals for AgFest in June. The FFA farm is full of healthy animals being raised by our FFA students. The farm contains steers, dairy heifers, pigs, and lambs. Each different type of livestock has its own barn. There is a cattle barn for the steers and dairy heifers, a swine barn for the pigs, and a barn for the lambs.

Each day, the students raise animals feeding and tending to their projects. The animals require feeding twice a day, pen cleaning anywhere from once a week to every day, and training to prepare for AgFest where they will sell their animals. The students are fully responsible for maintaining their project’s health and ensuring they have everything needed to live comfortably. The students must make sure their animals are well fed, have a clean environment, have fresh water, and get enough physical activity.

When the students receive their project, the animal is untrained, and the student is responsible for training it to make it ready for AgFest. At AgFest, the student sells it to a buyer who will then slaughter the animal for meat or use it as a dairy cow. 

FFA puts an incredible amount of hard work into these animals and it all certainly shows off at AgFest.