Cove FFA

04/03/2026

Tomorrow (4/4/26) is the Cove FFA Easter Egg Hunt at the Cove Ascension School!

Free Donuts, Coffee, and Hot Chocolate will be served from 9am-10am. At 10am the egg hunt will begin!

We will be staggering our start times for each age division:

10:00am: 7-11 years old (Behind Founders Hall)
~10:15am: 0-3 years old (Infront of Chapel)
~10:30am: 4-6 years old (South of Chapel)
~10:45am: 11 years old and up (Behind Founders Hall)

03/31/2026

We are gearing up for the Easter Egg Hunt that sponsored by the Cove FFA!

Help us make this the biggest year yet! We are looking for donations of plastic eggs!

If you’d like to donate, reach out!

This is a free Easter Egg hunt! It is this Saturday 4/4, coffee and donuts will be served at 9:00 am!

03/23/2026

We are back in Cove after a successful State Convention!

Thanks to Jessie Bakker and Darren Hansen for helping chaperone our trip & the booster club for setting us up with goodie bags for the ride!

⭐️ Cove FFA received the Superior Chapter Award

Middle School Creed:
Trenten Hansen, Hosanna Topliff, and Hayden Johnson

⭐️State Winner- Hosanna Topliff

Agri-Science- Jayden Hansen

Beginning Public Speaking- Titus Topliff, Top 8 in the State

🥉 Parliamentary Procedure- 3rd in State: Emma Carson, Esther Elmer, Kendra Mansveld, Chloe Hatch, Katelyn Matthews, Gideon Topliff

Farm Business: Lukas Tucker, Baylen Johnson, Titus Topliff, Gideon Topliff, Gauge McMurdo

Farm Business Management B Team: Finley O’Rourke, Ti-Ti Edwards, Kiera Pease, Hosanna Topliff, Brock Beverage

Four state degrees: Preston Bakker, Chloe Hatch, Katelyn Matthews, Gideon Topliff

Four state winning Proficiency Awards:

⭐️Grain- State Winner: Baylen Johnson

⭐️Diversified Ag Production- State Winner: Colten Anderson

⭐️Swine Placement- State Winner- Esther Elmer

⭐️Ag Processing- State Winner- Kendra Mansveld

Also a HUGE congratulations to Barreto Manufacturing for receiving the Oregon FFA Distinguished Service Award

03/20/2026

Good job, Hosanna!

Congratulations to our Middle School Creed Speakers!

02/25/2026

ATTENTION:

One of our FFA members is working on an Agri-science project for State Convention!

Please help gather information for her project by filling out this short survey!

My name is Jayden Hansen I am doing an agriscience project for the Oregon FFA State Convention on the Oregon bill IP-28, please fill out this survey.

02/23/2026

22 Cove Students went to District Convention hosted by Eastern Oregon University.

⭐️ Lukas Tucker - Portfolio

⭐️ Gauge McMurdo- 2nd COOP Quiz

⭐️ Colten Anderson - Diversified Ag Production- advancing to state

⭐️Kendra Mansveld- Agriculture Design and Fabrication - advancing to state

⭐️Gideon Topliff- Beef Production- District Qualifier

⭐️ Baylen Johnson - Foragae Production - advancing to State

⭐️Baylen Johnson- Grain Production- advancing to State

⭐️Baylen Johnson - Specialty Crop- advancing to state

Star Farmers- advancing to state:

⭐️Colten Anderson- Placement

⭐️Esther Elmer- Entrepreneurship

02/22/2026

Thank you to La Grande FFA for hosting at your school!

Busy day at sectionals!

🌟2nd -Advanced Parliamentary Procedure- Advancing to STATE

Emma Carson, Kendra Mansveld, Gideon Topliff, Chloe Hatch, Katelyn Matthews and Esther Elmer

🌟5th- Conduct of Chapter Meetings

Finley O’Rourke, Baylen Johnson, Brock Beverage, Ti-Ti Edwards, Caleb Fellows, Kira Pease, Titus Topliff

🌟1st- Beginning Public Speaking- Advancing to STATE
Titus Topliff

🌟4th - Beginning Public Speaking
Ti-Ti Edwards

🌟3rd - Extemporaneous Public Speaking
Emma Carson

Thank you to everyone who judged and help make this event possible!

02/05/2026

Whew!

First, thanks to Imbler for hosting, and all the volunteers who helped today!

🌟1st -Advanced Parliamentary Procedure- Advancing to sectional

Emma Carson, Kendra Mansveld, Gideon Topliff, Chloe Hatch, Katelyn Matthews and Esther Elmer

🌟1st- Conduct of Chapter Meetings - Advancing to sectionals

Finley O’Rourke, Baylen Johnson, Brock Beverage, Ti-Ti Edwards, Caleb Fellows, Kira Pease, Titus Topliff

🌟2nd B- Parliamentary Procedure
Hosanna Topliff, Jordyn Waters, Ethan Bakker, Gauge McMurdo, Talen Huffman, Quinn Hibbert and Briley Beverage

🌟1st- Beginning Public Speaking- Advancing onto sections
Titus Topliff

🌟2nd- Beginning Public Speaking- Advancing onto sectionals
Ti-Ti Edwards

🌟4th Job Interview
Esther Elmer

🌟5th Job Interview
Kendra Mansveld

🌟1st Extemporaneous Public Speaking-Advancing onto Sectionals
Emma Carson

🌟7th - Sophomore Public Speaking
Jayden Hansen

🌟4th- Extemporaneous Public Speaking
Gideon Topliff

🌟4th Creed Speaking
Baylen Johnson

🌟Creed Participant:
15th- Hayden Johnson
12th - Hosanna Topliff

🌟Parliamentary Procedure “Wild West”- Preston Bakker

It takes a crazy amount of help to get the kids prepped! Shoutout to the Cove FFA Alumni and Josh Bohannan for helping prep kids the last two weeks!

01/21/2026

If you have a Steer for EOLS, time to get your possession photos uploaded!

📢Market Beef Projects📢

▴Possession deadline is February 10, 2026 for 4-H & FFA. Possession photos are required to be uploaded by this date for EOLS eligibility.

▴NEW! All beef possession documents will be uploaded via the link below.

🔗 Registration Link: https://forms.gle/veb8RxVTPhMBoM5y5

▴Market Rate of Gain Contest- February 14, 2026 10:00am-12:00pm:

This contest is open to 4-H & FFA. Initial weigh-in required to participate for EOLS rate of gain buckle award sponsored by Sunnybrook Ranch. Out of county showmen may coordinate an approved weighmaster and scale to participate.

01/19/2026

Parents, Friends and supporters!

Join us Monday, January 26th for the Alumni Meeting! You do not have to be an alumni member of Cove or an Alumni of FFA to join! Come help us support the Cove Chapter!

11/24/2025

Reminder:

Meeting tomorrow 11/24-6:00 pm

No meeting in December, we will meet in Janaury on the 24th, 6:00 pm!