Chapter earns ribbons of purple and blue, accented by trophies of gold
Members of the Mountain Lake Area FFA Chapter recently participated in the competitive shows of the 2017 Cottonwood County Fair last Tuesday, August 15 through Saturday, August 19. The members exhibited their projects and/or animals for judging in the Agricultural Mechanics Show, Horticulture Show, Crops Show, Swine Show, Sheep Show and the Goat Show.
Many of those participants left the event, held at the fairgrounds in Windom, earning ribbons of purple and blue, accented by trophies of gold.
FFA Advisors include Lindsey Brockberg, Stephen Funk and Hayley Faber.
Following are the Mountain Lake FFA Chapter members earning grand champion, reserve grand champion, champion and reserve champion winners.
Cottonwood County Fair FFA Agricultural Mechanics Show
+ Champion Wood Project – Dylan Krueger (portable cooler).
+ Champion Metal Project – Nathan Regier (metal art).
+ Champion Directed Project – Fletcher Hanson (table).
+ Grand Champion Project – Dylan Krueger (portable cooler).
+ Reserve Grand Champion Project – Fletcher Hanson (table).
Cottonwood County Fair FFA Horticulture Show
Cottonwood County Fair FFA Crops Show (240 total samples, 109 total exhibitors)
+ Champion Bean Bundle – Ryan Blomgren (Forefront).
+ Reserve Champion Bean Bundle – Amy Bartsch (Forefront).
+ Champion Oats – Nick Curry.
+ Champion Bean Bundle – Nathan Regier (Stine 19LF62).
+ Reserve Champion Bean Bundle – Thomas Regier (NuTech 2220).
+ Champion Small Grain – Ryan Blomgren.
+ Reserve Champion Small Grain – Amy Bartsch.
+ Champion Soybeans – Julio Gutierrez (DeKalb 5278).
+ Reserve Champion Soybeans – Selvin Deleon-Lopez (Pioneer 22TR3RS).
+ Champion Ten Ear – Nathan Regier (DeKalb 5775).
+ Reserve Champion Ten Ear – Sierra Pankratz (Pioneer P0157AMX).
+ Champion Corn – Nathan Regier (Lanthem 5215).
+ Reserve Champion Corn – Thomas Regier (Lanthem 5215).
+ Grand Champion Exhibitor Overall – Nathan Regier.
+ Reserve Grand Champion Overall – Thomas Regier.
Cottonwood County Fair FFA Livestock Show
Swine Show
Sheep Show
Goat Show
Additional award winners
Mountain Lake FFA Chapter members received other awards, to be presented at this fall’s National FFA Convention. Junior Louangsaphakdy, who will be a senior at Mountain Lake Public High School (MLHS) was named to the National FFA Talent Show; Josiah Gardiner, a junior at MLHS this school year, made it into the National FFA Choir and Madelyn Regier, a 2015 graduate of MLHS, will be receiving her American Degree.
+ Not pictured are Dylan Krueger (Grand Champion Project and Champion Wood Project), Fletcher Hanson (Reserve Grand Champion Project and Champion Directed Project), Ryan Blomgren (Champion Wheat and Champion Small Grain), Amy Bartsch (Reserve Champion Wheat and Reserve Champion Small Grain), Nick Curry (Champion Oats), Julio Gutierrez (Champion Soybeans) Selvin Deleon-Lopez (Reserve Champion Soybeans) and Sierra Pankratz (Reserve Champion Ten Ear).