Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 days ago
After being selected as Eastern Region Vice President for the National FFA Organization, Caroline Groth hung her navy FFA jacket at the foot of her bed so it was the first thing she saw every morning.
“I get emotional,” said Groth, a sophomore studying agricultural education and agricultural economics at the University of Kentucky.
As she serves in the role in 2025, she will travel nationally and internationally to serve FFA members and the organization through providing workshops, giving speeches, going to FFA camps and visiting business and industry leaders.
Read more at https://news.ca.uky.edu/article/uk-student-one-million-she-begins-journey-national-ffa-officer.
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The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment serves the people of Kentucky and the world, through unparalleled teaching, transformative research and relevant service to farms, families and communities. The college proudly continues to build upon its land grant tradition with a strong commitment to improve lives and to build a sustainable future. Learn more: ca.uky.edu
Apply and start your future in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment: students.ca.uky.edu/future-students
The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service provides practical education you can trust to help people, businesses, and communities solve problems, develop skills, and build a better future. Find an office near you: extension.ca.uky.edu
After being selected as Eastern Region Vice President for the National FFA Organization, Caroline Groth hung her navy FFA jacket at the foot of her bed so it was the first thing she saw every morning.
“I get emotional,” said Groth, a sophomore studying agricultural education and agricultural economics at the University of Kentucky.
As she serves in the role in 2025, she will travel nationally and internationally to serve FFA members and the organization through providing workshops, giving speeches, going to FFA camps and visiting business and industry leaders.
Read more at https://news.ca.uky.edu/article/uk-student-one-million-she-begins-journey-national-ffa-officer.
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The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment serves the people of Kentucky and the world, through unparalleled teaching, transformative research and relevant service to farms, families and communities. The college proudly continues to build upon its land grant tradition with a strong commitment to improve lives and to build a sustainable future. Learn more: ca.uky.edu
Apply and start your future in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment: students.ca.uky.edu/future-students
The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service provides practical education you can trust to help people, businesses, and communities solve problems, develop skills, and build a better future. Find an office near you: extension.ca.uky.edu


![From Costa Ricas cloud forests to Kentuckys microclimate! #ukyextension #ukagriculture
From Costa Ricas cloud forests to Kentuckys microclimate!
Dr. Sybil Gotsch, an Associate Professor of Forest Ecology at the University of Kentucky, was recently featured in a PBS documentary for her research in Costa Rica.
Her work directly translates research programs right here in Kentucky, where she is trying to understand how the microclimate of the vast physiographic regions is changing the environment.
Check out her research on PBS [link]: https://youtu.be/y9HlSWmDtLw?si=AExViOWdX9p584Hx
[Video description: Dr. Sybil Gotsch discusses her research in Costa Rica and how it influences her work in Kentucky. Footage cuts between Gotsch talking in her office and scenes of the cloud forest with her climbing trees]
#UKYExtension #UKAgriculture #AdvancingKentucky
The Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment serves the people of Kentucky and the world, through unparalleled teaching, transformative research and relevant service to farms, families and communities. The college proudly continues to build upon its land grant tradition with a strong commitment to improve lives and to build a sustainable future. Learn more: mgcafe.uky.edu
Apply and start your future in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment: mgcafe.uky.edu/academics/programs
The University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service provides practical education you can trust to help people, businesses, and communities solve problems, develop skills, and build a better future. Find an office near you: extension.mgcafe.uky.edu
Educational programs of Kentucky Cooperative Extension serve all people regardless of economic or social status and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, marital status, genetic information, age, veteran status, physical or mental disability or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity. Reasonable accommodation of disability may be available with prior notice. Program information may be made available in languages other than English. University of Kentucky, Kentucky State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and Kentucky Counties, Cooperating. From Costa Ricas cloud forests to Kentuckys microclimate! #ukyextension #ukagriculture](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pzPQuUZ0mcQ/mqdefault.jpg)







