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Carroll County Fifth Graders Learn about Agriculture

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HUNTINGDON (March 8) — The approximately 400 fifth graders from all five Carroll County school districts gathered for Agriculture Day at the Carroll County Civic Center and the National Guard Armory.
The event, organized by Carroll County Farm Bureau, shines a light on the vital role of agriculture in society and particularly in Tennessee and Carroll County.
According to the UT Extension Institute of Agriculture, there are 732 farms in Carroll County comprising 177,931 acres. The largest acreage is soybeans, followed by corn, cotton and wheat, respectively. There are also 8,500 head of cattle in the county.
At the civic center, students ate lunch and learned about agriculture, responsibility and hard work from Cowboy Dan, who sang songs and played guitar.

At the armory, classes rotated between eleven stations where they learned about a wide variety of aspects of agriculture and food production.
Stations included: Farm Safety, The Super Soybean, Crop Care, Dairy, The Pollinators, Soil Conservation, Cotton, Combine Simulator, “What is a Farmer?”, Corn/Wheat and Chicken Hatchery.
Businesses and organizations contributing to the event were: UT Extension, Soybean Council, ADM, Pioneer Seed Company, Espey Gin Company, Carroll County Soil Conservation District, Peppers Ford, C&J Well Drilling, Tennessee Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom, Carroll County Farm Bureau Women, the USDA, Bell Consulting, Tyson Foods, Carroll County Farm Bureau and Kentucky Lake Beekeepers Association.
Future Farmers of America students from Clarksburg and Huntingdon also assisted with the event.