{"id":149153,"date":"2025-05-12T10:04:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T15:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=149153"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T15:05:08","slug":"oxford-ffa-teams-earn-top-honors-advance-to-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-ffa-teams-earn-top-honors-advance-to-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Future Farmers of America Teams Earn Top Honors, Advance to Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Oxford High School<\/strong> is excited to spotlight the exceptional achievements of the school&#8217;s Horticulture students at the recent <strong>Future Farmers of America (FFA) State Contest<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Oxford Horticulture program had three teams qualify for the State FFA Contest including: <strong>Agronomy<\/strong>, <strong>Equipment and Tool Identification<\/strong>, and <strong>Floriculture<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Agronomy event, team members\u00a0<strong>Lilly Ambrose, Meghan Goins, Stella McConnell<\/strong>, and <strong>Anastasiia Sikorska<\/strong> excelled in a general knowledge exam, identification of crops, seeds, weeds, insects, and a collaborative team activity. After winning the Floriculture event last year, these students embraced a new challenge and achieved top honors once again.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Oxford Horticulture also earned first place in the Floriculture event with a new team of students. <strong>Swayze Ross, Azalia Salgado, Aeriunna Strong<\/strong>, and<strong> Marissa Youngs<\/strong> demonstrated their knowledge through an exam, plant identification, and a floral design practicum.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special congratulations to Lilly Ambrose and Swayze Ross, who were recognized as the high-scoring individuals in Agronomy and Floriculture.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After attending last year\u2019s National FFA Convention &amp; Expo, the Oxford Horticulture program will return this fall to represent Mississippi in both Agronomy and Floriculture at the event in Indianapolis, Indiana. Their continued success is a testament to their commitment and skill, and we are thrilled to see them compete at the national level once again \u2014 this time in two categories.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford High School is excited to spotlight the exceptional achievements of the school&#8217;s Horticulture students at the recent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":149154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27812],"tags":[31845,5,4,5309],"class_list":["post-149153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-schools","tag-ffa","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-school-district"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Oxford-FFA.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149250,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149153\/revisions\/149250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}