Jay County FFA & Agricultural Education

06/09/2026

Be there or be square! This meeting is open to anyone in grades 7-12 for this next school year!

06/09/2026

We’re still thinking of all the fun we had in Washington DC! WLC was one for the books, and we are excited to put our Living to Serve plans to action over the next year.

Aside from attending sessions for the conference, we also did a night tour of the monuments, went to the Library of Congress (and got library cards!), visited Arlington Cemetery, Holocaust Museum, and National Archives. ✈️📚

06/07/2026

BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE

This past week these 5 members attended the Washington Leadership Conference, in Washington D.C. They learned how to be a leader help make a change in their community. They created Living To Serve plans, which are different plans they are hoping to implement to better the Jay Community. So stay tuned for those! And don’t forget to help make the change!

06/04/2026

05/14/2026

Today was spent harvesting our tilapia from our student designed and built aquaponics system! We bought these tilapia around a year ago and have been working out kinks in the aquaponics system with pumps, extra filtration systems, and what plants grow best in it.

After a full year of growing, it was time to harvest. Kids learned about the process of cleaning fish today and got to use their own hands to do it! So many students stepped out of their comfort zone and tried to help between catching the fish, cutting the gills, or filleting the actual fish.

We forgot to count how many fish, but we are guessing we will do around 200 by the time we finish! We will celebrate the success by having a department fish fry and letting the students reap what they harvested.

05/14/2026

Be there or be square. Ready to toss,race,chug,and conquer?See you at Ag Olympics.🌽🎇

05/01/2026

We are excited to share that four students in Mrs. Loy’s precision ag class have passed their FAA Part 107 Unmanned Aircraft General - Small Exam! 🎉👏

After learning the material in class, followed by LOTS of studying and practice exams, they traveled to Fort Wayne Ivy Tech’s testing center where they completed a 65 question exam about federal regulations, air space, airport functions, weather, mapping and unmanned aerial vehicle (drone) operations. They will now submit their testing information to the federal government to receive their official license and certification information. 🪪📚

This is just the first part of the new precision ag pathway and we are excited for what’s to come with this license and more for them! 🤩

Students who passed are: Kent Siegrist, Cooper Cooke, Rocky Beiswanger, and Ivan Brunswick. Congratulations, guys! 👏