Congratulations to all teams competing in today's Agronomy & Dairy Foods Career Development Events held at the University of Illinois! 

A special thanks to our Agronomy sponsor, United Prairie, Mr. Nick Wherley - Coordinator of Agriculture Outreach & Recruitment, German Bolero - Dean, ACES, Anna Ball - Associate Dean of Academic Programs, and all the University of Illinois students and staff that made today possible. 

We want to hear from you!

Please let us know of any feedback from today's events. Click here to submit a short Google form with the positives, negatives, and things that could/should be changed with the IL Agronomy and Dairy Foods CDEs. We value and thank you for your input!

Agronomy

In the Agronomy CDE, 38 Schools, 35 Teams, and 140 Individuals competed.

Congratulations to the Superior Teams and Individuals competing in this year's contest!

Students received instructions during registration stating Crops would be ID #1-25, and Weeds would be #26-50. When the contest began, these two practicums had been set up the opposite way. Students were informed before both rounds of Crop and Weed ID the correct way to enter their ID on the Scantron, and to ignore that portion of the Instruction Sheet. 

Dairy Foods

In the Dairy Foods CDE, 30 Schools,  26 Teams, and  133 Individuals competed.

Congratulations to the Superior Teams and Individuals competing in this year's contest!

Based on the recommendations of the Contest Superintendent, CDE Committee Rep, and the Scoring Committee, #4 on Dairy/Non-Dairy Identification was thrown out. No points will be awarded for that part of the question. 

Based on the recommendations of the Contest Superintendent, CDE Committee Rep, and the Scoring Committee, #6 on Cheese Identification was thrown out. No points will be awarded for that part of the question. 

Middle School Dairy Foods

In the Middle School Division of the Dairy Foods CDE,  9 Schools, 8 Teams, and  33 Individuals competed.

Congratulations to the Superior Teams and Individuals competing in this year's contest!

Based on the recommendations of the Contest Superintendent, CDE Committee Rep, and the Scoring Committee, #4 on Dairy/Non-Dairy Identification was thrown out. No points will be awarded for that part of the question. 

Based on the recommendations of the Contest Superintendent, CDE Committee Rep, and the Scoring Committee, #6 on Cheese Identification was thrown out. No points will be awarded for that part of the question. 

judgingcard.com results - Reminder

Full results may be accessed by logging in to judgingcard.com. Your initial username should be your chapter ID (ex: IL0001) and password should be the zipcode of your school. Upon initial login, you may change your password and personal information on the home screen menu. For questions or issues logging in to your account, email info@judgingcard.com.

To view results, click the "online results" ribbon on the bottom left side of the screen and select Illinois Agronomy & Dairy Foods CDEs. From here, you may view results by team, individual, or class statistics in either division. Your student names should be listed in full with students from other schools being reduced to initials. Detailed results can be viewed by clicking on student names or your school name.

Results posted in this email and on judgingcard.com are to be considered tentative at this time. Any discrepancies found in the results must be submitted in writing to the Illinois FFA Center within 3 days from electronic notification of results. Results will become official with the mailing of ribbons in the coming weeks.

Thanks again to everyone who helped to make this event a success!