HOWARD — East Knox FFA member Laureyah Neely participated in the State FFA Dairy Handlers Career Development Event (CDE) on March 26 at the Ohio Exposition Center in Columbus.
The competition was in conjunction with the Ohio Spring Dairy Expo where she finished fourth in the state event.
The top five places will now represent Ohio at the Eastern States Exposition in Massachusetts in September.
In this contest the members lead and set-up the cows for the State Dairy Cattle CDE and are scored much like a showmanship contest in a livestock show.
They are judged on their ability to control the animal in an unfamiliar area, to set the cattle up correctly, and to handle them smoothly and with ease.
Neely is the seventh East Knox FFA member to place in the top ten in the state Dairy Handlers CDE.
Being a freshman, this is her first year of competing in the Dairy Handlers event.