09/20/2026
What’s sweeter? The Big E Cream Puffs, or Holland Patent’s success this weekend? 🧁
Holland Patent had an incredible time at the Eastern States Exposition these past few days and have some exciting results to share!
🥛🥈Our Agriculture Issues team consisting of Griffin Pritchard, Colton Minnig, Connor Earl, Bella Bulson, Avery Kneezle and TJ Howard placed 2nd in the North East Region this weekend - performing their skit about the new Chobani Plant coming to Upstate, New York! Great job team! They are exploding with talent!
📱🥇Next up, was Reese who competed in Extemporaneous Speaking, and placed FIRST with a topic about Artificial Intelligence and its impacts on Agriculture. A great opportunity leading into Nationals!
🐄🏅The following day, Reese competed in an incredibly tough heat of Dairy Handling, but her skills still brought her success with a 9th place finish!
To top it off, they also were able to get a taste of New England Agriculture, visiting the Smith Vocational School in Massachusetts - and learning more about their programming; as well as Barstow’s Dairy Farm where we learned about their latest dairy technologies including robotic feeders, robotic milkers, and robotic manure scrapers. We also were able to learn about their Methane Digester, and how they use the energy grated from cow manure to create electricity to supply the farm, their homes, and a lot left over to return to the grid. Waste management was a huge topic of the days discussions! Thank you to both the Smith Vocational school and Barstow’s Dairy for great tours!
Heading home for the final day of Sunflower Fest! 🌻Be sure to stop by and support local agriculture, pick some sunflowers, enjoy the views, and grab a snack from our concession stand! 🌭🍔
Way to represent not only Holland Patent, but all of New York State in your contests! 💛💙CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL ON A SUCCESSFUL WEEK AT THE BIG E!
