Members of the Woodbury FFA chapter’s state champion dairy judging team recently attended the Working Lands Alliance Farmland Preservation Group’s annual Governor’s Breakfast held at the state Capitol. The dairy judging team members, who recently dominated the state dairy judging contest at UCONN by placing first as a team by 209 points, were on hand to help serve ice cream to Governor Malloy, Lt.. Governor Nancy Wyman, Commissioner of Agriculture Steve Reviczky, and over 30 other guests in the Capitol building during the breakfast. The ice cream was provided by Arethusa Farm Dairy from Litchfield. The FFA Dairy Judging team will move on to national competition this fall at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Kentucky as a result of their efforts. Team members include Sarah Turoczi and Chris Ricard from Woodbury, Laura Gillette from Bethlehem, and Courtney Nastri from Seymour. Also helping with the event was TJ Meyer, senior FFA member from Southbury, who was on last year’s state winning dairy judging team from Nonnewaug. TJ and his team placed fourth in the country last fall, earning them Gold medals and qualifying them to travel to compete this June at the Royal Highland Show in Edinburgh, Scotland and then embark on a 13 day tour of the agricultural industry in Scotland, England and Ireland. A local anonymous donor has provided TJ and his teammates from last year with $24,000 to completely fund this once in a lifetime event for the team members. For more info, please contact Bill Davenport, Ag Program Director, at 203-266-4038
