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 ...
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: ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new Farm Bill is being developed by federal legislators in the House and Senate, along with input from lobbyists and the Biden administration. The current 2018 Farm Bill expires at the end of 2023.
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 ...
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 ...