Aldine FFA celebrates 51st Livestock Show


The Aldine community once again stepped up to the plate and rewarded Aldine ISD’s FFA (Future Farmers of America) students by spending more than $183,000 on student projects during the 51st annual Livestock Show and Country Fair, held Jan. 28-29 at the M.O. Campbell Education Center.

The Sale of Champions was the culmination to the Livestock Show and Country Fair.

“The 51st annual Livestock Show and Sale of Champions was a huge success due to the Aldine community’s unwavering support,” said Franklin Higgins, Aldine ISD’s director of career and technical education. “Once again, the Show exceeded all expectations. We can’t thank our community enough for their generosity. We had another successful show because so many people and groups made a special effort to support our students as buyers.”

In addition to the various vertical buyers’ groups that purchased student projects, the district operations department purchased all of the student projects that did not place, thus ensuring that those students would have some sort of monetary reward for their hard work. That effort generated $30,500 to student projects.

For FFA Auction Photos and more about the event, please see pages 6 and 7 of our print edition.