During the week of May 2-6 2016, Marissa Peterson, Brittany Disch, Madalyn Holtz and Erin Lehr travelled to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to compete in the National Land and Range Judging Competition. These four Monticello FFA members earned the right to compete in this contest by earning 4th place in the State FFA Soils Judging Contest last August.

While in Oklahoma, the team spent much of their time practicing soils and land evaluation in order to learn the national scorecard and rules, and to also get a feel for what they might see on the day of the contest, Thursday, May 5, 2016. Once comp...