Senior Quiz Area Prep

In a Foundational SAE students may shadow a worker in an agricultural career.

The components of the FFA Mission Precepts are premier leadership, personal growth and career success.

Passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017 benefits most farm and ranch businesses.

The goal of the US Department of Energy is to power at least 25% of the nation’s electricity with wind by 2030

When groups of people come together, there is usually the matter of conducting discussions and making group decisions.

A well-developed voice is a characteristic of an effective leader that a presiding officer should possess.

The motion to reopen the nomination cannot interrupt a speaker.

There are ten phases to drafting the farm bill.

The FFA Creed was adopted at the 3rd National Convention.

Soybeans and Oil crops are considered to be Pulses.

Parliamentary Procedures are based on democratic principles.

Attendance at the National FFA “Victory Convention” was 12,500.

Teams entering the Homesite Evaluation CDE consist of 3 or 4 members and the state event location is at TarletonSU.

Reconsideration requires a second.

Closing ceremonies should be performed after entertainment, recreation, and/or refreshments.

Mandatory money means it comes to them automatically every year.

English explorers are credited with first introducing horses to North America in the 1500s.

Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy only affects cattle.

Almost 80% of United States farms are operated by families.

The Future Farmers of America was established in Indianapolis, IN in 1928.

Who is Miss Oates' favorite student on the Senior Quiz Team?

Farming accounts for about 2% of the United States gross national product.

What is Miss Oates' favorite color?

The farm bill has changed in the past 70 years and so has its primary purposes.

There are four divisions of in the Agriscience Fair.

The Senior Quiz team will make it to state?

There are 83,200 wild horses and burros that currently roam 27 million acres of western publiclands.

The 2018 Farm Bill has 12 titles.

In 1974, President George Bush was the guest speaker at national FFA convention.

Your SAE is one of the best ways to control what you learn, do and _____.

Hawaii is the only state to produce sugar cane.

Donald Trump spoke at the 2019 National FFA Convention.

What should happen after nominations are completed?

How many local chapters are associated with the Young Farmers of Texas?

Bobby Tucker was the first National President from Texas.

Consumers reap the benefits from American food production capabilities.

More than 5,500 megawatts of additional wind generation capacity are under construction.

98.6% of Texas farms and ranches are family farms, partnerships or family-held corporations.

98% of Pistachios are grown in California.

Tom Vislack is the US Secretary of Agriculture

Where is the National FFA Organization Headquarters located?

Discharging a committee is undebateable.

In 1979, Becky Leake became the first female FFA member in Texas to be elected to state office.

What is Miss Oates' brand?

Alaska was chartered in what year?

Nanotechnology will have almost no impact on the agriculture industry.

Sheep have 60 chromosomes.

Which of the following IS NOT a characteristic of a main motion?

The author of the Parliamentary Guide is Dr. Jarrell B. Gray.

Short-grain rice is grown almost exclusively in the south.

The millennial generation (people aged 34 and over) includes 257,454 farmers.

There is no motion to open nominations.

The state winner of the John Justin "Standard of the West" Award is presented a plaque and a $5,000 stipened.

Deliberative Assembly is an organization who use parliamentary procedure to make decisions.

Midsize Family Farms account for 6% of United States farms

Texas has had as many as 12 areas and for many years, these areas were a function of state education agency staffing.

FFA was created in _____ as the Future Farmers of America.

A quorum is a minimum number of members who must be present at a meeting for the valid transaction of business to occur.

In 1935 the National FFA Radio Program on NBC was launched.

The incidental motion to suspend the rules is not amendable.

The Ryan Mott Memorial Scholarship provides the state winner with a $1,000 scholarship.

CDE/LDEs develop general leadership and recognize individual and team achievement.

Which officer should take charge of candidates for degree ceremonies?

National NFA President Oliver Hunter from Texas resigned his office.

Kelly White serves as the Texas FFA Alumni President.

The chapter banquet should not exceed two hours.

FFA was created in _____ as the Future Farmers of America.

When voting, the basic rule is "one member, one vote."

Students should sit with ____ at banquet

The farm bill has changed in the past 70 years and so has its primary purposes.

It takes approximately 316 squirts to make a gallon of milk.

What year did Puerto Rico received their state FFA chapter?

It is proper to second a motion by merely stating, “second!"

Division 3 of the Agriscience Fair is made up of a team of two members in grade 9 and 10.

In what year did Corey Flournoy from Illinois become the first African American to be elected national FFA president?

A motion that has been laid on the table should only remain there if the meeting is adjourned or delayed.

The fourth step in the farm bill process is rulemaking.

The motion to reopen the nomination cannot interrupt a speaker.

16. Which of the pertinent facts are NOT TRUE regarding a main motion?

Where did Miss Oates go to College?

If the president wishes to debate a motion, and the vice-president is absent, who should be asked to preside?

Nominations may be made by all of the following methods, except:

Dr. Randy Harp of Texas A&M University-Commerce heads the state’s CDE Advisory Committee.

The Trade Title 3 covers food exports, trade programs, and international food security programs.

Parliamentary inquiries require a second.

Foot and Mouth Disease (FMD) affects only non-cloven footed animals such as horses.

The subsidiary motion to commit/refer a motion to a committee is not amendable.

Les Hudson is the Commissioner of Education.

The first female FFA member to be elected state FFA Office in Texas was Becky Leake of Sherman.

2.1 million farms dot America’s rural landscape.

The president is stationed across from who?

Nigeria pays the most of their disposable income on food each year at 57%.

The NFA was founded in what year?

There are 12 National Quality FFA Chapter Standard indicators.