Ashland Middle School places first at state FFA contest

The Ashland FFA Middle School Milk Quality and Products team finished its contest season by claiming first place in state competition.

Milk Quality and Products consists of milk defect identification, cheese and cheese characteristic identification, dairy and non-dairy identification, completing a California Mastitis Test, a dairy industry math practicum and a multiple choice knowledge test.

Throughout the past two months the team has competed at the Mount Gilead, Marysville, Miami Trace and Ashland invitationals.

At Mount Gilead, the team placed third. At Marysville, the team placed fourth and at the Ashland Invitational the team placed eighth. In all three contests, teams competed against middle and high school teams. At the Miami Trace Invitational the team placed second out of the middle school teams.

The season culminated with the state contest at the Ohio Expo Center where the team placed first.

Individually, Hannah McNaull placed first, Gwenyth Miller placed second, Sydney Spellman placed fourth, Brandon Keiser placed fifth, Paelyn Wilson placed ninth and Kaley Stoffer placed 10th.

Other Middle School team members who excelled through the season were Thomas O’Toole and Jaxton Geer.

The Middle School team and top individual placer, McNaull, will be recognized May 3 at the 4th General Session of the Ohio FFA Convention. The session starts at 9:30 a.m. and will be livestreamed.

Greg McNaull is the team coach.

This article originally appeared on Ashland Times Gazette: Ashland Middle School places first at state FFA competition