| This year there will again be Ag Day at the Prime Beef
Festival. All fifth grade classes in
Warren and Henderson counties have been
invited to participate in this event and all will be
attending in this our second season. Teachers have their choice of morning or
afternoon and busing will be provided if they need busing
or compensation if they are using their
own buses. We knew that possibly, with budget cuts, cost
could keep teachers from participating
and didn’t want that to happen.
There will be six different agricultural learning
stations that the children will rotate through with
each lesson being twenty minutes in length. The learning
stations are:
- Beef and How to Care For and Prepare a Show
Calf
- Swine and How to Care For and Prepare a Show
Hog
- Soybeans and Fertilizer
- Corn and Fertilizer
- Hay and Feed for Livestock
- Farm Machinery
- Ag
Day Video -
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This is just a way of showing the children another
aspect of agriculture and helping them
understand agriculture a little bit better. We chose fifth
graders because they were the fourth
graders who attended Warren-Henderson Farm Bureau’s Ag
Day For Kids last school year and
we felt this would be a continuation of some the topics
that were covered then, as well as some
new topics. We plan to give the teachers information and
materials that they can take back to
their classrooms and use in their lesson plans to further
expand the knowledge of these children
on agriculture.
President, Joe Greenstreet had the
idea of an Agriculture Education Day For Kids at the
festival last season and asked the Warren-Henderson
Farm Bureau Ag-In-The-Classroom/Women’s Committee if
they would help him accomplish
this. Joe knew that they have sponsored an Agriculture
Education Day For Kids for the past
several years and thought they would be able to help make
this idea happen. In this our second season Ag Day fits
our 2004 theme of "Ag Based Community" very
well.
Misty Vancil & Carol Gibb - co chairpersons
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