Hoskins and team take first at the IFAMAinti

Reagan Hoskins, left, a Pittsfield High School graduate, with her teammates at the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association. The group competed in the case study competition at the conference held in Costa Rica. Left to right, Hoskins, the team’s professor from Kansas State and coach at the competition, David Lehman, Phillip Hodges and Hannah Ballard. (Submitted photo)

By BETH ZUMWALT

Reagan Hoskins and two of her classmates at Kansas State competed in the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association’s annual conference, held this year in Costa Rica.
The group, accompanied by their professor and coach David Lehman, competed in the case study competition and took first place.
“There were several international companies at the conference and each team was assigned one to analyze,” Hoskins said. “We did a comparables, studied their strategic and management plans. We spent about four hours just reading the packet we were given.”
Hoskins’ team analyzed Shared X, a company from Latin America.
“It is an international company,” Hoskins said. “They teach new technology to educated farmers and also sell consumer goods such as coffee. It is sourced in Costa Rico and sold world wide.”
Shared X describes their company on their website as “a regenerative agriculture company founded on impact farming principles. Shared X is taking aim at the traditional farming industry and building a model that is more inclusive, empowered and fair.”
Hoskins said once the analysis was given, the team presented it to a panel of judges.
For Hoskins it was a last hoorah for competition in agriculture events. An active member of FFA at Pittsfield High School, Hoskins graduated from Kansas State this past spring.
She plans to start at the University of Kansas Law School this fall.
And while agricultural competitions may be out of her future, agriculture itself is not. Hoskins has not decided on which area of law to focus on, but says she is probably going to focus on land/property law or some other facet of agricultural law.
She is the daughter of Ron and Amy Hoskins of El Dara.