Cooper Sneary of the Alva FFA chapter earned first-place honors in the 2017 Oklahoma FFA Diversified Agricultural Production Proficiency Award area during the 91st Oklahoma FFA Convention May 3.

Trabor Mannering of the Thomas-Fay-Custer FFA Chapter and Garrett Slagell of the Hydro-Eakly FFA Chapter earned second and third place honors, respectively.

For his supervised agricultural experience, Sneary works in grain and animal production on his family farm in northwestern Oklahoma. "I help with all day-to-day activities, from feeding cattle to the planting and harvesting of all grain and forage...