Overview      
Career Development Events build on what is learned in agricultural classes and encourage members to put their knowledge into practice. These events are designed to help a member prepare for a career in agriculture by testing and challenging the student's technical, leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills as well as their knowledge of the subject matter. CDEs answer the question, "When will I use this knowledge in the real world?"

Many CDEs are qualifying events for the National FFA CDE competition and/or offer scholarship opportunities.

***ID LIST INFORMATION***
All ID lists can be found on JudgingCard.com at the following link: http://www.judgingcard.com/resources/List.aspx.  

***UPDATED SCAN SHEET INFORMATION***
The following events will have new scan sheets for the upcoming CDE season:  Agronomy, Entomology, Environmental & Natural Resources, Food Science, Forages, Milk Quality Products, Poultry, Range, Wildlife, Woodlands Clinic (Forestry), and Wool. 

The following scan sheets will not have a design change and do not need to be discarded:  Agricultural Technology & Mechanical Systems, Ag Sales, Cotton, Dairy Cattle, Farm Business Management, FFA Quiz (LDE), Homesite, Horticulture (Used for Vet Science), Land, Livestock, Meats, Plant ID, Universal Form A (Used for Horse Evaluation), Universal Form C (Used for Floriculture and Nursery/Landscape)

Please be sure to check you supply well in advance to the CDE season to ensure your team is using the correct scan sheets.  Examples of all scan sheets can be found here.

Here is a list of CDE teams in Texas. Remember you may choose any team from this list, but you can only compete in these competitions if you have enough team members.**

Ag Communications      

Agricultural Technology & Mechanical Systems      

Ag Sales      

Agronomy      

Cotton      

Dairy Cattle      

Entomology      

Environmental & Natural Resources      

Farm Business Management      

Floriculture      

Food Science      

Forage      

Forestry      

Homesite Evaluation      

Horse      

Land      

Livestock      

Marketing Plan      

Meats      

Milk Quality      

Nursery/Landscape      

Plant ID      

Poultry      

Range      

Tractor Technician      

Veterinary Science      

Wildlife      

Wool      

Source: https://www.texasffa.org/cde