Royalton FFA & Ag Department

05/19/2026

Meat Science class broke down a pork loin into retail cuts 🐖

This is our inaugural semester of this skills based class. Ms. Liddane is on a committee within Minnesota Association of Agricultural Educators where members developed a state wide high school meat cutting curriculum which we got to pilot this semester!

Units include:
Safety and Sanitation
PPE and Equiptment
Carcass, Yield and Quality grading
Careers
Packaging
Processing
Cooking methods

Thank you to Grand Champion Meats and Thielen Meats for supporting our new meats program through tours, experiences and materials.

Also thank you CLC Meats Program for training our FFA Meat Eval and Technology Team.

We are looking forward to the future of this program as meat processors and butchers are a high need in our region.

If you or someone you know has a skillset in meat cutting and processing, please introduce yourself to the Royalton Ag Ed Program. We would love to connect you with our students for learning experiences.

05/15/2026

Plant sale!

Today 3-5pm and tomorrow 10am-2pm are the last days of the plant sale!

- Bedding plants
- Hanging baskets
- Porch pots
- Veggie starts

05/08/2026

The Royalton FFA Plant Sale start today! Come by the greenhouse to get your mother’s day hanging basket or porch pot! And all your vegetable starts!

Where: North side of the Royalton football field.
When: Friday 5/8 and 5/15 from 3-5 pm. Saturday 5/9 and 5/16 from 10-2. Sunday 5/10 from 10-2.
What: hanging baskets, bedding plants, vegetable starts

Cash and check only.

05/06/2026

It might be cold outside but the greenhouse is warm!

Come grab your spring plants or Mothers Day gift at the. Royalton Greenhouse Plant Sale!

Greenhouse is located on the north side of the football field!

05/02/2026

04/25/2026

FFA State Convention was held just this last week at the University of Minnesota! Taking over 30 members, Royalton FFA headed down to the cities on Sunday afternoon in the direction of Autumnwood Farms to tour their dairy cattle milking and processing facilities! We then headed to our hotel for dinner and study time!
On Monday, we were leaving our hotel by 7am and members were dropped off at their competitions. Our chapter then went to the Mariucci Hockey Stadium for the 1st general sessions. Benjamin Neutz and Brody Navarro participated in State Band and Choir. Benjamin, playing trombone in the band, and Brody, singing front row of the choir, have been practicing on their own for months and were able to perform during this time!
Monday night, we attended the 2nd general session. During this session, our chapter received the Superior Chapter Award! We are so honored to have received this huge achievement! Also during this session, Brynn Gramentz received her State Degree! We are beyond proud of her!!
Tuesday morning, Benjamin and Brody preformed again, and Daniel Daak preformed a talent piece on the big stage! Singing “In color” by Jamey Johnson, Daniel did such an amazing job! Afterwards, we toured agriculture fraternity and sorority houses!
This is when our trip came to an end, and we headed home after such a long but fun 3 days!

04/25/2026

The long awaited state results are here! Congratulations to all teams who qualified and went to state! Here’s some of our higher team and individual placers!!

•Officer Team•

•Group Photo•

•Advisors•

•Soils• - placed 11th out of 45 teams, of 157 competitors, Landon Hackett placing 17th, Ethan Vannurden placing 41st, Keaton Nelson placing 70th, and Reed Revoir placing 88th

•Milk Quality• - placed 22nd out of 50 teams, of 177 competitors, Amelie Nelson placing 49th and Bailee Gronua 88th

•Meats• - of 133 competitors, Brynn Gramentz 91st, Spencer Bauer 98th

•Livestock• - placed 27th out of 64 teams, of 237 competitors, Payton Voge placing 31st

•Horse• - of 197 competitors, Hunter Richter placing 47th and Jayden Kaiser placing 94th

•Farm Business Management•

•Agronomy• - of 134 competitors, Alex Zimmerman placing 76th

•Ag Communications•

•Floriculture• - of 174 competitors, Sidney Toenjes 92nd

04/19/2026

Sending our teams off to state! Good luck to all!!

04/11/2026

Allergen monitoring lab in Food Science I 🧪

Food Science students demonstrated our knowledge on the Big 9 food allergens by practices Good Manufactural Practices and following Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and Standard Sanitation Operating Procedures (SSOP).

We made puppy chow, “cleaned/sanitized” as directed for their assigned group, used the AllerSnap (swab that tests proteins), incubated the tests and got our results!

Key:
green = pass
Gray= need to reclean/sanitize.
Purple = FAIL allergen present

Not only did we get to practice of skills of GMP, SSOP, SOP but we also got to enjoy the puppy chow. 🐶

Next unit- Nutrient analysis 🔬🧫

04/08/2026

Congratulations to Natalie Kaeter for being our March member of the month! Natalie is part of the Milk Quality CDE team, which is advancing to state in a few weeks. She is also on the Conduct of Chapter Meeting team that went to state in December. Congrats again Natalie!

We also recently held our April chapter meeting! During our meeting, we discussed lots about upcoming items, such as 2026-2027 officer and committee chair applications! For our activity, we had an FFA Knowledge Quiz as a competition for an Easter treat. The person with the highest score from each grade received a chocolate treat! If applying to be an officer or committee chair, the scores from their quiz went on their application! Good luck to all applying!