Earlier this semester, Seth Going, Superior Public School FFA sponsor, and Cayce Barry, a junior, presented a report to the Superior Board of Education on the Superior FFA Land Lab that is being developed.

Seventeen acres, directly north of the school, is one of only 10 land labs in Nebraska. The land was purchased by the school in recent years from Scully Estates for development.

“Many schools have test plots,” Going said, “But only a few have land labs.”

The land was divided into 10 plots last spring and planted to corn. Several classes used the lab for hands on learning experiences:

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