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Highland FFA travels to Pennsylvania
By Jessie Siron, reporting for the Highland County FFA
MONTEREY - On Friday, Jan. 11, the Future Farmers of America took a charter bus to Harrisburg, Pa., to the Pennsylvania Farm Show.
Those in attendance were Laramie Botkin; Dale and Derek Burns; Emily Cauley; James Colaw; Sam Ellington; Steve and Ben Heavner; Diane and Donald Hedrick; Burgundy Hicks; Penny, Tabitha, and Travis Hiner; Dennis and Ben Hull; Michael Humphries; Rebecca Landrum; B.J. Lightner; John McVeigh; Paige and Angie Mallow; Presley Marshall; John Miller; Chris Moore; Kristie, Charlie, and Robert Moyers; Alan Puffenbarger; Lauren Siron; Calvin and Catilyn Ralston; Steve and Cody Ralston; Holli Simmons; Jessie Siron; Corey White; Lyle Smith; Cindy Woods; and Dottie and Brittany Young.
The group departed from the school promptly at 6 a.m. Once in Harrisburg, everyone couldn't wait to get off the bus to explore the huge farm show.
It was fun, educational, interesting, and exciting. While touring the farm show many people got the opportunity to experience things from dairy cattle showing, to tractor square dance. The show had many exhibitors to see as well. There were lots of tractor companies, fence building companies and trailer companies.
Also, there were showcase exhibits put on by the Pennsylvania FFA and dairy producers. The dairy producers had an interesting sculpture of a boy with a cow and milk truck - it was made out of 900 pounds of butter.
The FFA had garden exhibitors that outlined a butterfly with rocks, and sand with flowers all around.
After spending time at the show, it was back on the bus heading for Hamburg, Pa., to make a stop at Cabela's. For some, this was the most exciting part of the whole day. The large Conversation Mountain, which was filled with deer, bear, polar bear, bobcat, elk and more, overwhelmed the group. Each side of the mountain showed a different region. For example, one region showed game of the arctic climate and another, the western territory.
The guys were amazed by the trophy room. It featured tons of deer mounts that were either a world or state record. Cabela's also had its own aquarium.
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