FFA KANSAS CITY. Mo. The team from Manor, Texas placed first in the National FFA Agricul tural Mechanics Contest. The team members are John Forsythe, Brad Dieringer, Ryan Heger and coached by Gaward Caveness. The Texas team placed first in competition against 42 other teams. Winners were announced recently at the annual awards luncheon, sponsored by Firestone Agricultural Tire Company in conjunction with the Bridgestone/ Firestone Trust Fund, a charitable trust of Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc. of Nashville, Tenn. The Agri- Top Ten Individuals 1. Brad Dieringer 2. Travis Williams 3. Clinton Lafferty 4. Ryan Heger 5. Carl Glimm 6. Kipp Hatmel 7. John Forsythe 8. Denton Rohrer 9. Ben Webster 10. Jamie Bultemeier Teams that participated in the con test follow: Gold Emblem Awards 1. Texas, John Forsythe, Brad Dieringer, and Ryan Heger, all of Manor; 2. Kansas, Travis Williams, Denton Rohrer, and Farm Business Management Top Ten Individuals Town State 1. James Sutherland Leroy Minnesota 2. Darrell Long Fruitland Idaho 3. Cody Wagner Sheridan Wyoming 4. Brian Kevitt Albumett lowa 5. Charlie Lawson Leroy Minnesota 6. John Redmond Carrington North Dakota 7. Michelle Thoms Yanceyville North Carolina 8. Loren Honegger Fairbury Illinois 9. Tony Stockdale Leroy Minnesota 10. Martin Truong Kingdom City Missouri Gold Emblem Teams 1. Minnesota, James Suther land, Charlie Lawson and Tony Stockdale, all of Leroy; 2. Ida ho, Darrell Long, Kenneth Gross Top Ten Individuals 1. Jennifer Griswold 2. Cindy Fein 3. Leafe Eriksen 4. Darla Stevens 5. Leslie Mise 6. Olivia Dahl 7. Timothy McNeal 8. Mike Brandau 9. Laurie Bayes 10. Courtney Marshall Gold Emblem Teams 1. Nevada, Olivia Dahl, Leafe Eriksen and Jennifer Gris wold, all of Wells; 2. Washing- Top Ten Individuals 1. Lyle Ruprecht 2. Mandy Stanfield 3. Joe Ezzard 4. Chris Hannan 5. Danial Martin 6. Larry Place 7. Monty Schiller 8. Andrew Bicksler 9. Ryan Bertad 10. Mark Mennell Announces cultural Mechanics Contest was held in conjunction with the 66th National FFA Convention in Kan sas City, Mo. Dr. Carl Reynolds, professor of agricultural education at the Uni versity of Wyoming, served as superintendent of the National Agricultural Mechanics Contest. The top 26 individual winners and the individuals on the national winning team will receive special scholarships sponsored by the Bridgestone/Firestone Trust Fund as a special project of the National FFA Foundation. The scholar ships are to be used toward a four year college or vocational/ technical school of their choice. Town State Manor Texas Wathena Kansas Parsons Tennessee Manor Texas Conrad Montana Hillsboro North Dakota Manor Texas Wathena Kansas Frederick Maryland Monroeville Indiana Matt Laipple, all of Wathena; 3. Tennessee, Jeremy Voigtmann, Clinton Lafferty, and Meredity Crosby all of Parsons; 3. India na, Jamie Bultemeier, TJ. Holle, and Robert Bowers all of Monroeville. and R. Christensen, all of Fruit land; 3. North Carolina, Michelle Thoms, George Scott and Neil Williamson, all of Yanceyville. Agricultural Sales Town Wells Sumner Wells Sumner Yanceyville Wells West Lafayette Osage Sumner Hanford ton, Cindy Fein, Laurie Bayes and Darla Stevens, all of Sumner, 3. North Carolina, Leslie Mise, Lori Lea and Jacqui Jeffress, all of Yanceyville. Dairy Cattle Town Lodi Clovis Eatonton Woodbury Tulare Perry Winlock Bemville Tulare Lodi National Contest Winners Gold Emblem Teams Stanfield. Dee Rae Lewis and 1. - Ohio. Lyle Ruprecht, Leo aH of Clovis; 1 - Jirka and Mark McnScll, all of m T' n®" Lodi; 2. New Mexico. Mandy 31,(1 Danial Martln> M of 1. Missouri, Jason Driskill, Aubrey Gibson and Kesha Porter, all of Urbana; 2. California. 1. Minnesota, Sally Cook, Bartlett; 3. Illinois, Mark Anne Hartman and Kay Salendny, Chwiervt, Marisa Cowan and all of Lakefield; 2. Tennessee, Brett McNish, all of Glenview. Rebecca Harrington, Wendy For- 1. Arkansas, Johnathon Dunmore; 3. Georgia, Stewart Lewis. Jeff Lewis and Kaleb Thigpen. Dwayne Havard and Mason, all of Mount Holly: 2. Jonathan Braswell, all of Cochran. State Nevada Washington Nevada Washington North Carolina Nevada Ohio lowa Washington California 1. Kansas. Spencer Schrad er, Bill Disberger and Tyson Buchman, all of Council Grove; 2. State Ohio New Mexico Georgia Connecticut California Michigan Washington Pennsylvania California Ohio Top Ten Individuals 1. Jason Driskill 2. Laura Beck 3. Aimee Eltringham 4. Kesha Porter , S. Aubrey Gibson 6. Rebecca Summers 7. Shonna Waldon 8. Lela Dunbar 9. Sarah Nylen 10. Block Owens Gold Emblem Teams Top Ten Individuals 1. Anne Hartman 2. Jody Powell 3. Elisha Priebe 4. Angela Heglas 5. Rebecca Harrington 6. Amber Roettgen 7. Andrew Kcil Jr 8. Brandy Marsich 9. Michele Copes 10. Brett McNish Gold Emblem Teams Top Ten Individuals 1. Gary Bowers 2. Anna Patterson 3. Stewart Thigpen 4. Johnathon Lewis 5. Jeff Lewis 6. Scott Garber 7. Bryan Gragg 8. Jason Cushman 9. Kaleb Mason 10. Dwayne Havard Gold Emblem Teams Top Ten Individuals 1. Spencer Schrader 2. Isacc Robles 3. Tyson Buchman 4. Todd Nicewonger 5. Terrill Stowe 6. Chris Amburgy 7. Cory Sickafoose 8. Kevin Haas 9. Shain Shimic 10. Justin Sexton Gold Emblem Teams Meats Evaluation & Technology Top Ten Individuals Town State 1. Lino Mendes Hanford California 2. Cadee Ohanesian Clovis California 3. Seth Nitschke Clovis California 4. Todd Bierschwale Fredericksburg Texas 5. Rusty Finch Palouse Washington 6. Lesley Jeffres Lander Wyoming 7. Jered Shipman Girard Kansas 8. Jason Behrends Fredericksburg Texas 9. Brandy Baxly Perry Georgia 10. Amber Glaser Lander Wyoming Dairy Foods Town State Urbana Missouri Altaville California Altaville California Urbana Missouri Urbana Missouri Rayville Louisiana Altaville California Belleville New York Altaville California Fruitland Idaho Aimee Eltringham, Sarah Nylen and Laura Beck, all of Altaville; 3. Idaho, Matthew Gross, Mike Tesnohlidek and Brock Owens, all of Fruitland. Floriculture Town Lakefield Frederick - Crawfordsville Flint Bartlett Bartlett Perrysburg Newark Wellton Glenview sythe and Amber Roettgen, all of Forestry Town State Elizabethtown Tennessee Lagrange Ohio Cochran Georgia Mount Holly Arkansas Mount Holly Arkansas Dunmore West Virginia Dunmore West Virginia Elk Creek California Mount Holly Arkansas Cochran Georgia West Virginia, Scott Garber, Bryan Gragg and John Kane, all of Livestock Town State Council Grove Kansas Modesto California Council Grove Kansas Modesto California House New Mexico South- Whitley Indiana South Whitley Indiana Yoder Wyoming Yoder Wyoming Washington C HOhio Indiana, Chris Amburgy, Ryan Rhoades and Cory Sickafoose, all of South Whitley; 3. Wyoming. J T Guest, Kevin Haas and Shain Shimic, all of Yoder. State Minnesota Maryland Indiana Michigan Tennessee Tennessee Ohio Delaware Arizona Illinois a '* # Crop Pest Tricked To Help Save Corn WASHINGTON; D.C. Sci entists are recruiting what seems to be an unlikely candidate to pro tect com from nasty fungi a brown, hairy beetle that spreads the fungi. As the dusky sap beetle wan ders through a com field, its hairy body brushes over ears of com and deposits the fungi that cause afla toxin. If this toxin teaches suffi cient levels in the kernels, the inefected com cannot be fed to livestock. “Sap beetles attack com at harvest time when insecticide can’t be applied because of the possibility of chemical residues entering the food chain,” said Fer nando E. Vega, a post-doctoral entomologist with USDA’s Agri cultural Research Service in Peoria, 111. That means this beetle about the size of a housefly is free to roam in com fields. Vegaand co researcher Patrick F. Dowd invented a trap for the beetles so their wandering ways and hairy bodies could be put to work to protect the com. Once lured inside the trap by sex attractants, the beetle’s hairy body becomes covered with spores of “good” fungi such as Bacillus subtillis, a natural enemy of the fungi causing aflatoxin. Usually in less than an hour, the beetles exit through the bottom of the trap, carrying die fungal spores on their bodies. Next stop for the beetles is the com field, where they spread the fungal spores on com ears. When aflatoxin-causing fungi appear, especially in hot weather, they are met with stiff resistance from their natural enemies already in place on the com plants. To see how well their strategy works, Dowd and Vega put blue dye in a dozen sap beetle traps on a University of Illinois research farm near Havana, HI. Results: the beetles spread the dye to 58 per cent of nearby wounded com ears. To eliminate the problem of the beetles themselves, the research ers say they could add a delayed action pathogen to the trap. Harm less to com, other plants and ani mals, the pathogen would kill the beetles after they gather to hibernate. Other crops that could be pro tected by this natural biocontrol system include apples, mangos, and figs all susceptible to dam age by sap beetles. Dowd and Vega are doing the beetle research at the ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in. Peoria.
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