Students compete, learn at CVTC Ag Skills competition

With a long plastic sleeve over her arm, Cadott High School senior Vanessa Hanson reached into the back end of a cow, all the way up to her shoulder. This time, it was just a simulator at the Chippewa Valley Technical College Energy Education Center during the annual Ag Skills Competition, but Hanson is prepared for the real thing.

“I want to be a veterinarian, so most likely I will do that for real,” she said.

Hanson was one of 97 students from 10 high schools attending the Tuesday, March 6, Ag Skills Competition, which included tours of CVTC’s Energy Education Center where the agriculture programs are housed, interaction with CVTC students in agriculture programs and a trip to the nearby Eau Claire Farm Show.

CVTC holds the Ag Skills competition each year so high school students from a wide area can come to Eau Claire for a day of ag education. The dairy competition involves teams of students completing tasks at multiple stations, like evaluating feed rations, determining a proper medicinal dosage for a cow and identifying common animal science tools. There were also competitions in agronomy and floriculture.

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