History: FFA in the News

ISSUE OF NOV. 4, 1965

Litchfield Independent Review

Last spring Joe Duncomb, ag instructor at LHS, distributed some pumpkin seeds to his “greenhands” freshmen members of the FFA with the idea of staging a contest in the fall to see who had grown the largest pumpkin. The winner was Gordon Seiffert who raised a monster that was over five feet in circumference. He planted the seeds in June and used plenty of fertilizer to grow his prize.

ISSUE OF JAN. 24, 1968

Litchfield Independent Review

Joe Duncomb, Litchfield Senior High agriculture instructor, has been selected to act as host and will lead a group of Minnesota FFA members on a visit to Europe next summer.

Members of the travel group have been selected from among outstanding FFA students in the state. The group will visit London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Copenhagen, Oslo, Berlin, Budapest, Rome and Madrid and will be gone from June 13 through July 4