Two Hillsboro and 14 Nokomis FFA members competed in 17 different areas at District 4 Proficiencies. The event was held at Sullivan High School on Thursday evening, March 7. Students were interviewed by a panel of judges about their recordbooks. Five students will be advancing to State and eight were runner-up in their specific areas.

One student will be advancing to State for Hillsboro, and that is Grace Anderson with her book in Specialty Crop Production, Hillsboro also had one runner-up and that was Erin Kistner with her book in Ag. Communications.

Students advancing to State for Nokomis will be Cody Knodle in Beef Production, Kendall Knodle in Grain Production Entrepreneurship, MacKenzie Adams in Nursery Operations, and Kristen Mascher in STAR Discovery Agri-Science.

Students who were runner up for Nokomis were Cody Knodle, candidate for STAR Farmer, Zach Schmitz in Dairy Placement, Bella Dailey in Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Keith Carlock in Home and Community Development, Ty Knodle in Fiber/Oil Crop Placement, Nick Mascher in Turf Grass Management.