Identify the FFA proficiency
awards.
Common Core/ Next Generation Science Standards Addressed!
• RI.5.7 Draw on information from multiple print or digital sources,
demonstrating the ability to locate an answer to a question quickly or
to solve a problem efficiently. (5-PS3-1),(5-LS2-1)
• SL.5.5 Include multimedia components (e.g., graphics, sound) and
visual displays in presentations when appropriate to enhance the
development of main ideas or themes. (5-PS3-1),(5-LS2-1)
• RST.6‐8.7 Integrate quantitative or technical information expressed in
words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually
(e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or table). (MS-PS11),(MS-PS1-4)
Bell Work
• What type of agriculture career would be
appealing to you ? Why?
• How do you plan to develop your SAE
program?
• What category of SAE program would be
most appealing you you?
What are the various FFA
proficiency awards available
to FFA members?
The FFA provides an
agricultural proficiency award
program to recognize
members who have an
outstanding Supervised
Agriculture Experience
Program, in over 30 areas
each year.
A. The proficiency awards are
given for entrepreneurial and
placement programs, ag.
business and ag. science
categories.
B. Students compete on chapter,
state, and national levels based on
records kept.
New Mexico uses the AET Tracker
system.
AET is now the base program for all
FFA applications all the way to the
national level.
The AET record system is available
to all New Mexico FFA members free
of charge! Check with your advisor!
Chapter Proficiency Awards
• Local award pins are furnished by the
national FFA organization free of charge to
local advisors via their ACN login on the
national FFA website.
Remember!
• Most FFA Agriculture proficiency awards
have two categories!
• Placement
• Entrepreneurship
Agricultural Communications • Students placed at a radio, newspaper,
magazine, or TV stations.
2. Agricultural Mechanical/Technical
Systems -
• Involves design, construction, repair, and
maintenance of electrical motors, agricultural
equipment, and structures.
3. Agricultural Processing • Students working in assembling, transporting,
grading, inspecting, processing, fabrication,
mixing, patching, storing, and marketing food
and nonfood agricultural products.
4. Agricultural Sales and/or
Service• Students who are working in the sale of feed, seed,
fertilizer or agricultural chemicals, equipment,
agricultural management and finance services,
animal breeding services, horse shoeing and
taxidermy.
5. Beef Production• Involves beef producing and marketing.
6. Cereal Grain Production• Students who produce cereal grain
crops such as wheat, rice, and rye.
7. Dairy Production• Students
involved with
marketing and
producing
dairy cattle
and products.
8. Diversified Crop
Production• Students who produce and market a
combination of two or more crop
enterprises.
9. Diversified Livestock
Production• Students involved
with producing and
marketing a
combination of two
or more livestock
enterprises.
1 Emerging Agricultural
Technology• Students working for wages or
experience in new and emerging
agriculture technologies that are not
covered in existing award categories.
11. Environmental Science• Members receiving practical
experiences concerning the principles
and practices of managing and /or
improving the environment.
12. Equine Science• Students
involved with
horses.
13. Feed Grain Production• Students producing
or marketing such
crops as corn,
barley, millet,
buckwheat, oats and
grain sorghum.
14. Fiber Crop Production• Students who
market or produce
such crops as sisal,
cotton, and hemp.
15. Floriculture• Students who
produce and market
field or greenhouse
flowers, foliage, and
related plant
materials for
ornamental
purposes.
16. Food Science Technology• members who work for wages or
experience in the production and
marketing of quality foods for human
consumption.
17. Forage Production• A program including the producing an/or
marketing of such crops as alfalfa,
clover, brome-grass, grain forages, corn
and grass silage and all pastures.
18. Forest Management• Students using
forest management
practices available
to conserve or
increase the
economic value of
a forest.
19. Fruit and /or Vegetable
Production• Students who
produce or
market
common fruit
and vegetable
crops.
20. Home and/or Community
Development• Members who have worked on inspiring
and protecting the beauty of an area by
using natural vegetation or commercial
ornamental plants and/or modernizing
the home for better health and comfort.
21. Landscape Management• Includes planting and maintaining turf,
plants and shrubs, landscaping and
outdoor beautification, and improvement
of recreational areas.
22. Nursery Operations• Students who work with turf plants,
shrubs, and/or tree production for the
purpose of transplanting or propagation.
23. Oil Crop Production• Program which includes producing and
marketing oil crops such as soybeans,
flax, mustard, canola, caster beans,
sunflower, peanuts, and safflower.
24. Outdoor Recreation• Students with
programs that
involve outdoor
recreational
activities as the
primary use.
25. Poultry Production• Students involved
with producing and
or marketing poultry
products and or
poultry.
26. Sheep Production• Students with
programs that
involve
producing and
marketing lamb,
sheep, wool,
and mutton.
27. Small Animal Care •
Students
providing
services in
caring for the
well being of
pets.
28. Soil and Water
Management• Students employed in management
practices that will prevent erosion,
improve soil productivity, promote
efficient use of water resources and
reduce water pollution.
29. Specialty Animal
Production• Students involved with the production
and/or marketing of specialty animals.
30. Special Crop Production• Students who market and/or produce
such crops as sugar beets, tobacco,
popcorn, maple syrup, indian corn, dill
oil, all grass seeds,spearmint oil,
mushroom, sugar cane or hops.
31. Swine Production• Students
involved with
the production
and/or
marketing of
swine.
32. Turf Grass Management• Students involved in the production,
management and care of turf. Yard care,
lawn mowing, fertilization.
33. Wildlife Management• Members involved with work that
improves the availability of fish and
wildlife.