Motley County Future Farmers of America members Wyatt Perryman and Andrew Stafford were awarded the Lone Star FFA Degree at the 93rd annual Texas FFA State Convention held July 5-9 in Fort Worth.
The Lone Star FFA Degree is the highest degree bestowed by the Texas FFA Association. These members have maintained a supervised agricultural experience program (SAE), have demonstrated their leadership skills, participated in community service activities, and have shown their commitment to the FFA through their involvement at the chapter level and above.
The Texas FFA is the nation’s largest state FFA association, with a membership of more than 137,500. FFA gives students the opportunity to apply practical classroom knowledge to realworld experiences through local, state and national competitions.
Jim Cooper, advisor of the Motley County FFA Chapter, was awarded the Honorary Lone Star Degree at the convention.
Cooper, who has taught agriculture for 38 years—35 of them at Motley County—was nominated for this award by his peers and fellow ag teachers of the Area 1 FFA Association. He is completing a three-year term as the Area 1 Ag Teacher president, which will conclude at the Texas State Agriculture Teachers Conference in Corpus Christi this month.