Nursery & Landscaping

State Contest Information
All interested teams need to register for the Wisconsin FFA State Nursery & Landscape CDE. ALL interested teams will advance to the State CDE Live contest on April 25, 2025.

DATE: Friday April 25, 2025

TIME - 8:30 a.m Start

LOCATION:CHANGE*** Bruce Company Nursery, 1472 State Road 69, Verona, WI 53593

SUPERINTENDENTS - Jake Schneider & Reid Maier

Overview
The Nursery⁄Landscape CDE tests students skills in horticultural principles, from landscape design to nursery propagation. Participants in the Nursery/Landscape Career Development Event (CDE) tests students skills in maintaining landscape plants and related products, evaluating equipment and services and performing landscape design.

Wisconsin State Nursery & Landscaping Handbook

Rubrics

2025 Equipment Rubrics
Practice all 6 in preparation for the State CDE which will include 3 of the 6 listed below

1) ZTR MOWER
2) CHAINSAW
3) SKID STEER
4) BLOWER
5) PUSH MOWER
6) SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS

Team Activity Rubric (National FFA Rubric is used)

Resources:

TEAM ACTIVITY
Content Focus for 2025-
Please center Team activity problem preparation around this scenario:

As the owner of a landscaping and nursery company, you have broad oversight of the summer annual display design and installation process that your company performs for your contracted customers. After all the designs have been approved by the customers and the orders have been placed, your purchasing manager informs you just weeks before your production crews are scheduled to plant the flowers that your supplier had a crop failure for one of your most used flowers. How would you overcome this unexpected challenge specifically as it relates to the following areas:
1. Customer communication and satisfaction
2. Plant supply and design
3. Scheduling and installation

One person from your team should guide the overall discussion by providing an introduction that includes a summary of the problem, their teammates names, what each teammate will be discussing. This person should also conclude the presentation with a short summary of their team’s plans. The other three team members should focus on one of the three specific areas mentioned above. If you have 3 people in your team, choose two of the three specific areas as you deem appropriate.

ESTIMATING PRACTICIUM
   Practice Drawing
Practice Estimating Exam w Key

EXAM RESOURCES

Link 1 https://www.wisconsingolfbmp.org/bmphome  Focus on sections 3(pollinator protection) and 7 (nutrient management)

Link 2 - American Standards for Nursery Stock Focus on Section 1 (General Standards), Section 3 (Deciduous Shrubs) and Section 4 (Coniferous Evergreens) Pdf file linked here

2024 Wis NL Exam w Answers

PRACTICE SCANTRON - Horticulture

WISCONSIN IDENTIFCATION LIST - Nursery Landscape

National FFA Nursery & Landscaping CDE

Results and Awards
2024 Top Individual - JENELLE ANDRUS Green Bay Preble FFA
2024 Winning Team - Green Bay Preble FFA

2023 Top Individual 2023 Top Team

Makenna Schuebel Plymouth FFA
Stanley-Boyd FFA Plymouth, WI