10/18/2021 11:41:00 AM Students judge farm animals at Stewie Invite
About 300 students from 22 area school districts stood in judgment of a variety of farm animals at the annual Stewartville Invitational on Thursday, Oct. 7. Above, Caden Boehm, a freshman FFA member at Stewartville High School, at right, controls market hogs in their pen at the Robert Roeder farm as visiting students, in the background, judge the animals. Kristen Schnell, ag teacher and FFA advisor at SHS, says the Stewie Invite gives students a chance to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to select the most desirable animals in each class.
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About 300 students from 22 area school districts stood in judgment of a variety of farm animals at the annual Stewartville Invitational on Thursday, Oct. 7.
The young people judged beef, sheep, swine and goats at the Robert Roeder farm and dairy cows and heifers at a farm owned by Ed and Sherrie Twohey.
Kristen Schnell, ag teacher and FFA advisor at Stewartville High School, said the Stewie Invite gives students a chance to use critical thinking and problem-solving skills to select the most desirable animals in each class...
For more on this story pick up your copy of the Oct. 19 Stewartville STAR.
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