High Plains FFA animal lab: 6 years & going strong

Lab promotes hands-on learning as well as investment in community

  • High Plains FFA members and volunteers take some time to watch the cow and horse feed after dumping buckets of grain in their trough. Ag instructor Thomas Hofmann stated that the six year, hands-on training process and encouraging students to continue to raise animals has been a success.
    High Plains FFA members and volunteers take some time to watch the cow and horse feed after dumping buckets of grain in their trough. Ag instructor Thomas Hofmann stated that the six year, hands-on training process and encouraging students to continue to raise animals has been a success.

    Ag instructor Thomas Hofmann has been teaching for 32 years, 11 of which have been at High Plains Community Schools, but said for the past six years he has been able to connect High Plains FFA students to the physical process of taking care of farm animals with the on-campus animal lab. Hofmann, whose animal lab was shown on NTV news on April 21, talked about the benefits for students and how it …