We will update this website as information becomes available. Updates made between August and the date of the National FFA Convention will appear in red to highlight the change. Please report errors or unworkable links to the appropriate associate superintendent and the superintendent of the CDE.

Superintendent Contact Information

• Preston Byrd

• Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Extension Education

• Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College

• 2802 Moore Hwy, Tifton, GA 31793 

• 134A Environmental Hort Building 

• O: 229.391.5256  

• C: 864.245.5373

Email: alex.byrd@abac.edu 

General information

Please click on each link to access general information:

• Overview and purpose

• National FFA Agricultural Technology and Mechanical System Handbook - CDE rules

• Computer, printer and calculator requirements

• Updates for the CDE event for 2024

Skills activities information

Please click on each link to access skill activities info:

• Skill Activity guidelines for all skill areas

• 2024 Machinery and Equipment Systems Activity

• 2024 Electricity Systems Activity

• 2023 Compact Equipment Systems Activity

• 2024 Structural Systems Activity

• 2023 Environmental/Natural Resources Systems Activity

Team activity and Written Exam information

Please click on each link to access Team activity and Written Exam information. 

• 2023 Team Activity

• 2024 Written Exam

• 2014-2021 Written Exams

Please read the Agricultural Technology and Mechanical Systems Handbook!

Click here to return to the National FFA Career Development Event page.