Tarrant County Junior Livestock Show

     Today I will be talking about the Tarrant county junior livestock show. This will be our next and last show we will be attending as an FFA. Last year was the first year that our district has a livestock team! I was fortunate enough to be one of the first people to be on the BCTAL FFA livestock team. BCTAL is a abbreviation for Birdville Center of Technology and Advanced learning. Last year there were about 300 livestock animals at the show and countless more arts and crafts projects. The Tarrant county junior livestock show has been around since the 1950's and insnt going anywhere soon.

Birdville Independent School District also know as BISD recently bought a roller rink for our FFA to convert into an Agriculture barn. I am really excited about this opportunity that the district has offered us! This program went from 7 goats the first year, to currently 12 goats, 3 steers, 15 rabbits and 2 lambs, and it's still growing!

Anyways back on topic, last year at the Tarrant county show I was fortunate enough to win Reserve Grand Champion market wether at the 2013 show. I got second out of 77 overall behing the Grand champion goat! I feel that I was truly blessed to have had that opportunity to be able to show and get to experience something as cool and interesting as this.

Earlier this week I was interviewed by the star telegram about my experiences with FFA. The lady asked my how FFA how positively affected my life and the many benefits I see and have experienced being in the amazing program. She went on to question how I felt about the district buying and renovating a new barn for our program and how we felt about it. All in all FFA has greatly effected my life in many positive ways and will continue to support this program well into the future.you can see the article here.

 

 

 

Campbell, Elizabeth. "Birdville School District Converts Roller Rink into Agricultural Facility." Star Telegram. Star Telegram, 13 Feb. 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2013.

 

FFa Emblem. N.d. Photograph. North Dakota. North Dakota FFA. 15 June 2012. Web. 17 Feb. 2014

 

.N.d. Photograph. TelegramStar. 13 Feb. 2014. Web. 17 Feb. 2014.

 

Tarrant county show, Fort worth Texas. Personal photograph by author. 2013.