{"id":2952,"date":"2025-11-11T01:58:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T01:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/?p=2952"},"modified":"2025-11-10T18:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T18:00:07","slug":"rocori-ffa-takes-home-gold-at-the-98th-national-ffa-convention-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/11\/rocori-ffa-takes-home-gold-at-the-98th-national-ffa-convention-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"ROCORI FFA Takes Home Gold at the 98th National FFA Convention & Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – ROCORI FFA places second at the National FFA Convention & Expo for Milk Quality & Products.<\/p>\n

The team began competing together in 2021, and at the 2025 Minnesota FFA Convention became the state winner for Milk Quality & Products and advanced to compete at the National FFA Convention & Expo.<\/p>\n

Competing against 40 other state associations, totaling more than 160 individuals, the ROCORI FFA team consisted of Loretta Belknap, Emily Christensen, Ella Lahr, Bethany Posch, coached by Kathy Ratka.<\/p>\n

The team achieved a Gold rank and was announced as the second place Milk Quality & Products team in the nation, with Loretta Belknap placing tenth and Ella Lahr placing first individually. With seven components as a part of the contest, Ella Lahr placed second in Milk Defects.<\/p>\n

The ROCORI FFA Chapter was also recognized as a three star chapter, the highest star ranking a chapter can achieve.<\/p>\n

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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana – ROCORI FFA places second at the National FFA Convention & Expo for Milk Quality & Products. The team began competing together in 2021, and at the 2025 Minnesota FFA Convention became the state winner for Milk Quality & Products and advanced to compete at the National FFA Convention & Expo. Competing against […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Milk-Quality-Products-Team-Photo.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2952\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csrecord.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}