* The Kansas State University Collegiate Crops Team has claimed its fifth national championship in a row. The team captured victories at both the Kansas City Board of Trade and Chicago Collegiate Crops contests to win the national championship. K-State placed first in all three phases of the contest in Kansas City: seed analysis, grain grading and plant and seed identification. The team won the seed analysis and plant and seed analysis phases of the Chicago contest. December 2003
* The three-member K-State crops team took first-place honors for the ninth year in a row at the Central Regional Collegiate Crops Contest, Oct. 25, in Hays. The contest offered competition in three categories ó identification, grain grading and seed analysis -- with members of the K-State team earning the top three finishes in each category. October 2003
* The Kansas State University Crops Judging Team won the 2003 North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture Crops Contest April 6 at Murfreesboro, Tenn. They also won this title in 1999, 2001 and 2002. The team placed first in the categories identification, agronomic calculations and laboratory practical and placed second in the agronomic quiz category. April 2003