Annual Ag in the Classroom Event Welcomes over 400 Students - Granite Falls News

Annual Ag in the Classroom event welcomes over 400 students - Granite Falls News

Each year in March, Yellow Medicine County Farm Bureau hosts Ag in the Classroom – an event that allows for 4th grade students from area schools to gather at the MinnWest campus in Granite Falls to meet with local commodity groups, electric industry representatives and farm safety instructors.

Students learn about agriculture at Harrison County Farm Bureau Ag Day

By Shelby Shank Field Editor More than 400 elementary students in East Texas stepped outside the classroom to learn about agriculture during an Ag Day hosted by Harrison County Farm Bureau. The half-day event, held at William B. Travis Elementary School in Marshall, introduced kindergarten through fifth-grade students to the role agriculture plays in their everyday lives. “We try to visit the elementary schools each spring for an Ag Day,” said M…