Let’s say you’re a high school student in an agronomy or agriculture class and you’re looking for some real-world experience. You can’t just buy a few hundred acres on which to experiment. Enter: ...
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Farm jobs are cool and there are all kinds to choose from. That’s what state Labor Commissioner Roberta Reardon told kids in award-winning teacher Amy Gosier’s first-grade ...
For students visiting Hadden Farms this week, the classroom comes to life when they step out into the dirt, reach for ears of corn and come face-to-face with the animals, crops and machinery that turn ...
Four free Applied Digital Skills lessons were launched by the 2023 Farm Bureau Foundation Fellows on Wednesday to help students learn about food, fuel and fiber. Powered by Google, the lessons were ...
The three-day NDSU Extension safety camps teach youth about a variety of topics including proper tractor and all-terrain vehicle operation, and livestock handling. North Dakota State University ...
Years ago, when I was a college student, I returned one weekend to my family farm. It was calving season, and as soon as I arrived home, my father drafted me to help him check the cows and newborn ...
FAIRBURN, Ga. - Patrick Muhammad and his wife Ishtar have learned a lot of lessons since they purchased their 31-acre farm in Fairburn six years ago. They raise chickens, horses, grass-fed cows, and ...
FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Kids in West Fresno are growing farms and futures. Hiding in the heart of the old southwest Fresno neighborhood is a small plot of hope. The kids walking through the corn ...
Suisun Valley K-8 School teacher Heather Merodio cut pieces of a broccoli flower, handing the knubby, green segments to her fifth-grade agri-science students, some 20 in all, seated on the edges of a ...
Growing up on a farm provided many valuable lessons that have transferred beautifully to my life in the non-farming marketplace. Here are four of those timeless and universal lessons. The Application ...