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Waterloo FFA wins national award
The Waterloo FFA chapter brought another accolade home this weekend after it won an award Thursday during the National FFA Convention & Expo in Indianapolis. The group won the National…
Read MoreFatal train vs. tractor crash in Fults
Several emergency agencies responded shortly after 8 p.m. Friday to a fatal crash involving a train and a farm tractor with multiple train cars derailed in the area of Fults…
Read MoreBirrittier reflects on FFA officer experience
Joey Birrittier’s FFA career began unremarkably. As a freshman at Waterloo High School, his guidance counselor told him to sign up for an elective class. He told the counselor to…
Read MoreWhere does your food come from?
Valmeyer farmer Bruce Brinkman tills 1,100 acres of land along the bottoms, growing corn, beans, wheat and horseradish. The United States Department of Agriculture’s most recent census data shows his…
Read MoreWaterloo FFA repeats as top chapter in state
The Waterloo FFA made it back-to-back state titles at the Illinois FFA State Convention in Springfield on Thursday. The chapter was named tops in the state for a second straight…
Read MoreWaterloo FFA wins top chapter in state
The storied Waterloo FFA program did something this week that it’s never done before in its 76-year history. At the State FFA Convention this week in Springfield, the chapter was…
Read MoreWaterloo FFA celebrating 75 years
The Waterloo FFA has been a part off the school district and Monroe County as a whole for 75 years. Here, in the heart of Waterloo FFA Week, the chapter…
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