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Recruiting Team (All Year) Students make periodic visits
to area schools for recruiting and good will.
Fundraising (All Year) Sell meat products, pecans, poinsettias
for funding club projects and activities.
Farm Management (Everyday) Assist instructor and ranch
foreman in maintaining, organizing, and implementing management practices.
Carlisle Junior Livestock Show (January) Open to any
classification of student to show cattle, swine, sheep, goats. Serve as arena assistants, assist superintendents, etc.,
announcers.
Area FFA Convention (February) Hosted 2001, 2000, 1999,
1995 (Over 900 in attendance)
Overton-New London Chamber of Commerce Annual Banquet (February)
Assist with meal preparation and serving.
Livestock Judging Clinic (March) Practice judging for 4H
and FFA Livestock Judging teams.
Rusk County Youth Project Show (March) Serve as announcer,
ring stewards, arena assistants.
Kilgore FFA Project Show (April) Serve as announcer,
ring stewards, arena assistants.
Soil, Plant Identification, and Woodlands Judging (April)
Host Rusk County and Smith County contests; members grade, tabulate, serve as group leaders, etc.
"Go-Texan" Crawfish Boil (April) Assists in serving and
clean-up.
Texas Junior Colleges Agriculture Association (TJCAA) Convention (April)
Participate in leadership and academic contests, awards, officer elections.
TJCAA Advantages
Official web site of the Texas Junior College Agriculture Association
Award's Banquet (May) Honor guests and dignitaries
who have assisted club during year.
Kiddie Day (May) Annually hosts 800+ preschoolers (ages
3-6) for livestock exhibits and farm tours.
Texas 4-H Roundup (June) Assist exhibit booth for TJCAA
recruitment
Overton Annual Bluegrass and Gospel Music Festival (June)
Club hosts a food booth and assists in the sale of tickets.
Kilgore College Bull Performance Evaluation Tests (June - March/April)
Three tests administered and sponsored by Ag Club. Each test is 105 days to provide breeders from Texas, Arkansas,
and Louisiana with data regarding rate of gain, soundness, structural frame, muscling, and other traits of economic importance
to beef cattle producers. Also, assists in ultrasounding of all animals in each test.
Texas FFA Convention (July) Exhibit booth for student recruitment.
Area VI Longview District Agri-Science Teacher Meeting (August)
Host agscience teaching from 30 area high schools in four counties.
Rusk County PRCA Rodeo (September) Ushers, ticket sales,
concession stand workers.
Show Team (September - March) Exhibit Angus cattle at various
major livestock shows (East Texas State, State Fair of Texas, Houston Livestock Show and Fort Worth Stock Show).
Harvest Festival Livestock Judging Contest (October) Organize,
administer, grade, tabulate, contest.
Waskom FFA Leadership Contest (November) Members and advisor
judge creed speaking contest.
Christmas Parade (end of November, beginning of December)
Organize, plan, and build award-winning floats with educational and agricultural theme for Kilgore, Henderson, Overton, and
Arp Christmas Parades.
Club Christmas Party (December) Collect gifts for
underprivileged children; games, exchange gifts, fellowship.
FFA Dances (Occasionally) Sponsored FFA, 4-H dances at
Rusk County Ag Center for area youth.
KC Ag Club Home Page
Kilgore College Show Team
Kilgore College Farm News Releases
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