High school students from local campuses and across California converged on Hancock College in Santa Maria to compete in a variety of agriculture-based contests Saturday as part of an FFA Field Day.
Beginning at 7 a.m., more than 125 students from 14 high schools competed on topics ranging from vegetable crop judging and soil and land evaluation to veterinary science and agricultural tool identification, a Hancock spokesman said.
Santa Maria, Pioneer Valley, Righetti and Lompoc high schools were among those represented at the Field Day, spokesman Chris McGuinness said. Read more…
