National FFA Organization - Career Development Events

Career Development Events

FFA Career Development Event, or CDE's, are contests that members compete in to test their skills learned through agricultural education instruction. They vary at the different levels of the FFA, and some are competed in only at certain levels and certain states, districts, areas or federations.

At the National level, there are 23 CDE's:

  • Ag Communications
  • Ag Issues Forum
  • Ag Mechanics
  • Ag Sales
  • Agronomy (Insects, seeds, etc.)
  • Creed Speaking
  • Dairy Cattle Evaluation
  • Dairy Cattle Handlers Activity
  • Dairy Foods
  • Environmental & Natural Resources
  • Extemporaneous Public Speaking
  • Floriculture
  • Food Science & Technology
  • Forestry
  • Horse Evaluation
  • Job Interview
  • Livestock Evaluation
  • Marketing Plan
  • Meats Evaluation & Technology
  • Parliamentary Procedure
  • Poultry Evaluation
  • Prepared Public Speaking
  • Veterinarian Science




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