MARSHALL, Minn. - Howard Lake-Waverly-Winsted earned 135 total points to take the team crown at the Sixth Annual Ag Bowl Scholarship Invitational on Friday, Feb. 16. The event, which is hosted on the campus of Southwest Minnesota State University and presented by Ralco, Inc., drew a record high of 655 participants from 38 different FFA Chapters. The students competed for SMSU scholarships in 17 Career Development Events (CDE).

The 17 CDEs included, Ag Issues, Ag Sales, Best Informed Greenhand, Conduct of Chapter Meetings, Creed Speaking, Crops, Employment Skills, Extemporaneous Public Speaking, Farm Business Management, Fish & Wildlife, Floriculture, Forestry, Milk Quality, Parliamentary Procedure, Prepared Public Speaking, Small Animal and Soils.

HLWW has now defended the team title for a fourth straight year. For full results of the individual and team competition click the link below.

The SMSU athletic department would like to thank all of the sponsors for making this such a successful event over the years, including the presenting sponsor of Ag Bowl, Ralco, Inc. Other great partners of Ag Bowl include: Action Sports, ADM, AgQuest Financial Services, Channel Seed, CHS, Golden Harvest, Harvest Land Cooperative, Lyon County Corn & Soybean Growers & Their Checkoffs, Lockwood Motors, Marshall Animal Clinic, Midwest Ag Enterprises, Minnesota Corn Growers Association, Minnesota Soybean Research & Promotion Council, and Titan Machinery. 

Ag Bowl was developed in 2007, as a celebration of agriculture in Minnesota. SMSU is proud of the fact that it is located in southwest Minnesota, where agriculture provides the cultural and economic foundation for the region. Over its 10 years, Ag Bowl and its impact has grown significantly, as in 2013 the Ag Bowl Scholarship Invitational was added in the spring to greater expose FFA members to the agriculture academic opportunities available at SMSU. Proceeds from Ag Bowl and the Ag Bowl Scholarship Invitational help fund scholarships and programming to SMSU students and young people who dedicate their careers to business success in agriculture, environmental science and the food industries. For more information on Ag Bowl and/or the Ag Bowl Scholarship Invitational contact Tim Steinbach at Tim.Steinbach@smsu.edu.


 FULL RESULTS | TEAM RESULTS