Wheatland FFA Montana

10/26/2024

Dear Harlowton Community,

We are pleased to announce that fruit sales have begun. To place your order, please contact an FFA member. This year, we will offer pre-mixed boxes instead of individual crates while continuing with the same supplier as in previous years. Don't worry, the quality of the fruit will remain exceptional.

Best regards,
Mr. Vanek

10/19/2024

Wheatland FFA would greatly appreciate your help!
If you have had the opportunity to visit the Musselshell Steakhouse, please complete this confidential form to support our Marketing Team in their business plan. The more responses we receive, the more accurate our data will be. We sincerely appreciate your participation. Thank you!

We kindly request that you complete this confidential form to assist our Wheatland FFA chapter in collecting demographic data on consumers of Musselshell Steakhouse. Please note that no personal information such as names, phone numbers, or email addresses will be collected through this survey. The m...

09/13/2024

Harlowton had such an amazing opportunity to represent our chapter at DLS! Three members attended where they were able to grow their leadership experience through multiple different workshops. Great first start to the year!

Western DLS has came and gone once again! Our 2nd Vice President: Romulus Hiner, Reporter: Grace Mosher, Sentinel: Ryan Bal, and Parliamentarian: Grace McPherson, travelled all over the western side of the state this week. Middle school members were able to learn about managing their risks and becoming comfortable in the uncomfortable, which was taught by Rom and Grace Mcpherson, and our high school members learned about how to better understand/appreciate others perspectives, while allowing their emotions to not cloud their judgment, which was taught by Grace Mosher and Ryan! Our team would like to extend a huge thank you to Frenchtown for hosting the Western district, Cascade for hosting the Glacier district, Geraldine for hosting the Milk River and Judith Basin districts, and Belgrade for hosting the Yellowstone and Southwestern districts!!! We truly appreciate all the hard work of setting up and feeding our members and team. These workshops could not happen without the help of our advisors, and staff!!
Western DLS, you all were amazing! Thank you for a great week.

09/04/2024

Harlowton FFA Prepares for Exciting Year with New Advisor and Activities

With the new school year finally here, Harlowton FFA officers have eagerly awaited to kick this year off with activities and contests! Along with a new year, comes the wonderful opportunity of gaining a new advisor, Mr. Joe Vanek. With almost 15 years of FFA advising experience under his belt, we can not wait to see the outstanding growth our chapter will have this year. Updates to look for sponsored by our Wheatland FFA Chapter include Friday Fun Day activities for K-6, fundraisers (annual fruit baskets), and contest updates and awards.

Here’s a little intro that Mr. Joe Vanek wrote to introduce himself to our community;

Hello Engineers! I am excited to join the crazy train at Harlowton High School as the Business and Agricultural education teacher. I began teaching in 2010 at Moore School as an ag-ed teacher. I live just south of Eddie’s Corner on the family ranch with my wife and three kids. Yes, I am driving back and forth each day.

We can’t wait to experience this year with our new advisor and new and old chapter members! As we kick off this new year, we can’t wait to work with our community to grow and express our agricultural and leadership experience throughout.

Next Post: DLS Update!

04/06/2024

04/06/2024

The results are in, at the end of the end of the 94th, Montana FFA state convention, a new slate of state officers are selected by an nominating committee. We are proud to announce that Rom Hiner will be serving as the 2024-2025 state 2nd Vice President. Rom Hiner reserve service will begin immediately as his trainings will start in the following weeks. Rom Hiner will be representing the Montana FFA Association and the National FFA organization across the state of Montana as he visits chapters, organizes, workshops, and helps further the efforts of our state FFA Association. 

04/06/2024

Wheatland FFA finished up the 94th Montana FFA State Convention at Metrapark this afternoon.

Rom Hiner and Piper Ward were recognized as scholarship winners at last nights session. Rom Hiner was the receipient of the Murdochs Ranch and Home Supply Scholarship. And Piper Ward was recognized as the receipient of the Bulls Shows Through Scholarship.

Rom Hiner and Piper Ward received their Montana FFA State degree awards last night in the Metrapark Arena. Only 2% of Montana FFA members received this award this year.

Rom Hiner placed third in the state for the Extemporaneous Speaking Career Development Event.

Piper Ward was recognized for her Beef Production Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) project.

And our chapter was adopted by the National FFA secretary, Grant Norfleet.

We are incredibly proud of these kids, and the work that they put into their ag mechanic show projects, contests, applications, and efforts.

04/04/2024

Wheatland FFA is at Metra Park in Billings for the 94th Montana FFA State Convention. Our week started off Tuesday with Ag Sales and Employment Skills CDEs. And later finished the evening with some ax throwing for a chapter bonding experience.

Today, our members presented their Ag Mechanics projects at the Junior Ag Mechanics show. Charles Hall walked away with 4th place in the Outdoor Rec Division. All participants walked away with blue ribbons.

This evening, Final Four contestants for the Extemporaneous Speaking CDE were announced in no particular order. Romulus Hiner was selected to go on to compete on the main stage on Friday morning.

Stay tuned for more information as it becomes available about our endeavors at the Montana FFA State Convention!

03/18/2024

Rom Hiner will be running alongside 32 other FFA members from across our state of Montana to be an officer on the 2024-2025 Montana FFA State Officer team at our state convention April 2-6 in Billings. If selected, Rom will be representing the Montana FFA Association for his year of service as a freshman at Montana State University Bozeman. Being a Montana FFA State Officer is a prestigious role. And we are proud of Rom Hiner for his efforts towards helping Montana FFA Association in furthering his involvement in the advocacy of our organization and in agriculture.

03/11/2024

The Montana FFA State Convention, April 2nd-6th, is looking for volunteers. The Sales and Service CDE superintendent asked for me to post this here since we need a high volume of judges to make this possible. The link will send you to the sign-up link for the whole event.

Ag Sales: Metra Concourse Tue. Apr 2, 2024 | 3:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Description: Students will work as a team to prepare a team question presentation. They will then complete an Individual sale and a customer service call. They will also complete a written test.

Location: Metra Concourse

Time: Judges will meet at 2:15pm, and should plan on staying until 7:45pm if you need to leave before 7:45 just let kaitlin know and we will make it work!

Volunteers Needed:- Positions include individual sale judges, customer service call judges, team prep judges, and team presentation judges.

Contact Info: Kaitlin Trutzel - [email protected] or 406-249-8018

01/27/2024

Wheatland FFA traveled to Broadwater High School today in Townsend, Montana to compete in the southwestern winter district contest.

UPDATED:
Our Ag Sales CDE team took 1st place overall.
Piper Ward and Rom Hiner took 1st and 2nd individually in sales.
Rom Hiner took 1st and Piper Ward took 3rd in Extemporaneous speaking LDE.
And Piper Ward took 5th place in Prepared Public Speaking LDE.