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Event
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Date
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Meals Provided
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Transportation
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Attire
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Location
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Notes from the CDE Chair
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Ag Business
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Friday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Main Campus
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**New Rules in 2025**
Test will be in the morning and then team presentations will be from 2:00-4:00 PM.
Business plans due 2/14 to this form.
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Ag Mechanics
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers* - brought to student mid-event
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None
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Shop attire & PPE
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Campus Ag Center
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Ag Mech Updates from Dr. Franklin
Only to 25 teams eligible to participate - list to be sent out on 2/18.
Students need to bring:
- Safety glasses
- Tape measure
- Welding PPE
- Hand Saw
- Calculator
- Clipboard
- Pencils
- PVC Wind Turbine - Team
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Ag Sales
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Main Campus
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Ag Sales Product Details and Recording on Team Webinar
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Agronomy
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers*
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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Aquaculture
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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Bring a water test kit if you have one. Otherwise, we will have some to lend out.
Only top 20 teams eligible to participate. List to be sent on 2/18.
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Dairy Evaluation
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Both
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Pizza Provided*
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Bus departs at 9:00 AM Friday
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Field Official Dress
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Friday: Feenstra Heifer Facility
304 N Russell Rd. Casa Grande, AZ 85172 Saturday: Campus Ag Center
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Team activity topic will be nutrition. |
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Entomology
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Friday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Main Campus
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Employment Skills
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Friday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Main Campus
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Only students with pre-submitted materials eligible to participate. Materials due 2/14 here.
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Floriculture
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Field Official Dress. Heels are not recommended.
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Campus Ag Center
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Students should bring: Clipboard, ribbon shears, wire cutters, pencil(s), floral shears, non-programmable calculator
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Food Science
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Friday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Main Campus
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Students should bring water to cleanse palate.
- All students are required to wear closed-toe shoes, no rings and no bracelets. Additionally, students with long hair need to bring their own hair tie. These are requirements for our labs and certified kitchen.
Only top 20 teams eligible to participate. List to be sent on 2/18.
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Forestry
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Official Dress
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Main Campus
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Horse Evaluation
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Friday
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Pizza Provided*
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Bus departs at 9:00 AM Friday
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Field Official Dress
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Al Marah Equine Facility
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Livestock Evaluation
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers*
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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Nursery & Landscape
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers*
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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Meat Evaluation
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Field Official Dress with lab coat and hardhat (not required)
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Campus Ag Center
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1. Students need to have clipboards to fill out forms and pencils.
2. Students need to be dressed appropriately for being inside the coolers. Warm clothing, closed-toed shoes.
3. If possible, students also need to bring hard hats, clean white frocks, and hairnets.
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Milk Quality & Products
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Main Campus
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Students should bring water to cleanse palate.
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Poultry Evaluation
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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- There
will be a team activity this year. This has been in the rules but is not something
we have done the past few years. Please see the rules for guidelines.
- Students will
need calculators and will not be allowed to use a cell phone as a
calculator.
- Students
should also bring clipboards and pencils.
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Range Management
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers*
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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Soils
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers*
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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Vet Science
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Friday
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Pizza Provided*
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Bus departs at 9:00 AM
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Official dress or scrubs
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Vet Science Facility
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Only top 25 teams eligible to participate. List to be sent on 2/18.
This year the team activity will revolve around zoonotic diseases. Please review the following material to be prepared for the scenario:
https://www.avma.org/news/us-releases-first-national-one-health-framework
https://www.avma.org/news/study-three-bovine-veterinarians-unknowingly-infected-h5n1
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/avian-influenza
https://www.avma.org/resources-tools/animal-health-and-welfare/animal-health/avian-influenza/avian-influenza-virus-type-h5n1-us-dairy-cattle
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Wildlife
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Friday
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Meat Wagon – Hamburgers* - brought to student mid-event
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None
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Field Official Dress
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Friday: Campus Ag Center
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Team Activity Details
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Tool ID - Greenhand
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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A clipboard would be helpful
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Tool ID - Advanced
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Saturday
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None
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None
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Full Official Dress
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Campus Ag Center
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A clipboard would be helpful
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