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| Left: George Skidmore (Left) and Tim Rank (Right) evaluate the soil pits for the 2014 Darke County Land Judging Contest at Kenton Arnett’s farm near Pitsburg. Right: FFA students analyze a soil pit during the 2014 land judging contest held in Monroe Township at Kenton Arnett’s farm. |
The land judging contest consists of a rural and an urban test. Each test challenges the students to not only identify soil types, but also consider other soil characteristics when making recommendations for use of that area. The contest consisted of four stations, three soil pits and a written test. The students had 15 minutes to finish the test at each station. Upon completion of the contest, students were asked to hand in their answer keys before Darke SWCD staff would go over the answers and reasoning for each station.
This year Versailles Team #1 finished with the highest team score on the rural test, followed by Tri-Village Team #1 and Versailles Team #2. The highest individual score was Dean Heitkamp from Versailles FFA. Tri-Village brought the only team to compete in the urban test this year, the team score was 1,073 out of a possible 1,398 points. The highest individual score was Ethan Deneski.
“Darke SWCD would like to thank the Kenton for graciously hosting this year’s competition, George Skidmore for helping Tim Rank evaluate the soil pits, Jeff McMiller and Darke County Ditch Maintenance for digging the pits and all the schools for participating in the event. The participation and enthusiasm from the students and teachers is what makes this competition great,” said Jared Coppess, District Administrator for Darke SWCD.
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