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Wyatt
King and Kayla Seman
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Edison State Students
Place in National Ag Marketing Contest
The Agriculture Finance class at Edison State Community College’s Darke
County Campus recently participated in a national commodity marketing
challenge, AgYield Simulation. Two Edison State students, Kayla Seman,
of Bradford, and Wyatt King, of Greenville, placed in the top five out
of 60 individuals who competed. Seman finished in second place while
King placed fourth.
The AgYield Simulator provides competitors the chance to experiment
with various marketing tactics through computer-generated growing
seasons. Users test production and marketing decisions based on
commodity prices, USDA reports, weather, and other everyday variables.
“The Ag Yield Simulation is an excellent tool to take some of the
skills and knowledge the students are learning throughout the
agriculture program and applying those to a real-life scenario,” said
Brad Lentz, Agriculture Program Director at Edison State. “It forces
students to think through decisions, calculate their risk, and learn
from their mistakes.”
Participants were provided 2,500 acres, 1,300 of corn and 1,200 of
soybeans, to market over a 36-week period. Throughout the March 1 to
November 7 time frame, users were granted access to AgYield’s
Profitability Outlook where they could test decisions across all price
and yield situations before completing transactions.
“It has tools that allow the students to try different techniques
before making that final deal. It’s a great way to practice on paper
before entering the real world and selling their products to the
market,” added Lentz.
Students from Edison State Community College, Illinois State
University, Iowa State University, Kansas State University, Northwest
Missouri State University, University of Nebraska, The Ohio State
University, Penn State, Upper Iowa University, Virginia Tech, and
Wright State University competed in the challenge.
Both King and Seman are working toward completing the Associate of
Applied Science degree in Agriculture at Edison State. Upon completion,
both students plan to apply the knowledge they have gained from the
program to their family farms and are considering transferring to
four-year institutions.
For more information about Edison State’s agriculture degree program,
visit www.edisonohio.edu/programs.
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