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February 17, 2010

4-H Land Judging Team wins state championship

Daniel McDonald

The Baldwin County 4-H Club’s State Champion Land Judging Team can use your help in getting to the National Land and Range Contest in Oklahoma City this May.

Coming off their state championship at the Georgia 4-H Land Judging Competition in Thomson, Katy and K.C. McGill, Stephen Collins and Jessica Driggers, the four local high school students who make up the Land Judging Team, have been raising money to make the trip to Oklahoma to represent Georgia in the national competition held during the first week in May.

Baldwin County Extension Office County Coordinator Janet Palmer told The Union-Recorder that the Baldwin County team formed last August and has been training both in the classroom and out in the field to prepare for these land judging competitions.

“They have to be some bright kids to catch on and excel in land judging,” she said. “It’s an extensive amount of knowledge that they must have; they must know about the land, the crops and [how the crops interact with the land].”

Palmer said her husband, Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Scotty Palmer, has been working with the team to give them the background necessary to take the knowledge they’ve gained in the classroom and put it into practice in the competitive setting.

In land judging competitions, teams of judges consider the topography of different parcels of land before entering pre-dug trenches to evaluate the soil profile. Judges must also be able to make recommendations about the mechanical factors that would be involved in growing specific crops on the land.

Palmer said becoming involved in land judging helps the students apply many scientific and math-related skills in real-life situations. And in practicing and applying those skills, Palmer said the students are gaining valuable insight into any number of potential careers.

Palmer said the Baldwin County 4-H team is a very talented group of individuals, and she is hoping they will be able to bring home the community’s first national championship in a 4-H competition in a long time.

The National Land and Range Contest will take place between May 2 and 7 in Oklahoma City. The Baldwin County 4-H Land Judging Team is raising money to help make the trip possible.

Anyone interested in donating toward that effort or in finding out more about the team can call Baldwin County Extension Office County Coordinator Janet Palmer at (478) 445-4394.

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