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Members of the Logan County Farm Bureau
organized and sponsored the fair in celebration of National Ag Day.
Pigs and ice cream were favorites of
Brittney Bone, a student in Ms. Kristin Splain's class from
Northwest School. The pigs were cute, Brittney said. And everyone
enjoyed the ice cream made in zip-lock baggies.
Students also received pig food, or
rather a mixture of human food that was the equivalent of what a
typical pig eats. Take-home baggies were filled with a trail mix
that included a variety of small, bite-sized snacks, candy-coated
chocolate candies and raisins.
Activities and demonstrations were
designed to help kids discover how agriculture is a world of
opportunities and how people need agriculture in their daily lives.
The five breakout sessions engaged students in hands-on activities.
The sessions featured dairy, pork, corn, machinery and soybeans.
Future Farmers of America from three
schools set up, taught and performed demonstrations and then cleaned
up afterward. Eight students came from Lincoln, three from
Hartsburg-Emden and five from Mount Pulaski.
LCHS student Jerrod Reynolds worked
with students making blobs of colorful plastic from cornstarch and
oil. Reynolds worked the fair last year too.
A game like bingo, with pictures of soy
products on the cards and soybeans used for markers, helped students
learn more about the diversity of soy.
Jumbo-sized green and yellow field
equipment parked outside caught the attention of some students.
The closing segment featured sheep.
Live sheep were brought in and shearing was demonstrated.
Students were bused to the half-day
fair. About 175 students attended the 2½-hour morning session, and
around 85 students attended the afternoon session.
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Jim Drew from the Logan County Farm
Bureau said that the fair has been going on about eight years now.
The fair used to be taken to the schools, one school at a time.
About four years ago they thought up the idea of bringing the
students to the fair. Doing it this way has changed what can be
done. So much more can be presented.
Students were also invited to
participate in a "Celebration of Agriculture" essay contest. The top
five winners will receive trophies.
The following schools participated:
Morning:
Afternoon:
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Northwest
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New Wine
Christian
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Mount Pulaski
As kids were
waiting for their buses and presenters were carrying stuff out,
everyone was talking about their day, including one of three little
sheep in their holding pen out front. He said, "Blahhhhhh!"
Interpretation: They had a good time too and look forward to next
year.
[Jan
Youngquist and news release]
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