Students reap rewards at long-running Salt Fork contest

  • Students representing Wellington FFA and Collingsworth County 4-H gather following the Salt Fork agriculture contest awards ceremony at the SCS Building Friday, March 24. Front row, from left: Jacy Lampe, Kenady Skelton, Christell Melendez, Summer Owens, Heather Peters. Back row, from left: Hunter Hedrick, Lawson Inman, Barrett Phillips, Weston Wright, Dixon Dugan. Not pictured: Lisette Vela. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom
    Students representing Wellington FFA and Collingsworth County 4-H gather following the Salt Fork agriculture contest awards ceremony at the SCS Building Friday, March 24. Front row, from left: Jacy Lampe, Kenady Skelton, Christell Melendez, Summer Owens, Heather Peters. Back row, from left: Hunter Hedrick, Lawson Inman, Barrett Phillips, Weston Wright, Dixon Dugan. Not pictured: Lisette Vela. The Red River Sun/Bev Odom
  • Collingsworth County 4-H youth gain experience at the Salk Fork Plant Identification contest Friday, March 24. Front row, from left: Wade Patterson, Quade Mock, Berkeley Ward, Ryker Killian, Ben Peters. Back row, from left: Hunter Hedrick, Lawson Inman, Kenedy Skelton, Ava Kate Inman, Christel Melendez, Brylnn Kemp, Dixon Dugan.
    Collingsworth County 4-H youth gain experience at the Salk Fork Plant Identification contest Friday, March 24. Front row, from left: Wade Patterson, Quade Mock, Berkeley Ward, Ryker Killian, Ben Peters. Back row, from left: Hunter Hedrick, Lawson Inman, Kenedy Skelton, Ava Kate Inman, Christel Melendez, Brylnn Kemp, Dixon Dugan.

    COLLINGSWORTH COUNTY – For over 50 years, the Salt Fork Soil and Water Conservation Board of Directors and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) - Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) staff have hosted an annual FFA and 4-H agriculture judging contest in rural Collingsworth County.

    This years’ contest included FFA teams from Hedley, Mc-Lean, Miami, Motley County, Wellington, W…