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Modern farming practices
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FFA student Eric Melberg explains how a planter works as part of a video created to show school kids in Minneapolis.
2021 Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City FFA students (from left) Taylor Fester, Wilson Gratz and Eric Melberg get ready for the Google Classroom meeting.
FFA members share their experience with Minneapolis students
Wilson Gratz created drone footage of local farms to show school kids in Minneapolis.
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ATWATER-COSMOS-GROVE CITY – The Kandiyohi County Farm Bureau and a local chapter of FFA have partnered up to bring agriculture to kids in the classroom. The partnership has high school FFA students in the Atwater-Cosmos-Grove City chapter sharing about their family farms in front of fourth graders here locally and to a classroom of students in Minneapolis. “It’s to share, to put a face to ag,” said JoAnn Gratz, a volunteer with the bureau. “High schoolers are total rock stars in the eyes of elementary kids. They share their story and their enthusiasm.” The collaboration began two years ago and Gratz said she’s looking forward to the programming continuing this year and beyond. In 2020, just before COVID-19 restrictions shut down schools, the FFA students and local farmers from the bureau went into classrooms to teach kids about how farmers care for their animals. They discussed how farmers decide on the nutrition that’s best for their animals, how farmers prepare places for their animals to sleep and how they track each animal’s care. The mission is multi-fold, to give kids an idea of where their food comes, how much work goes into production and to educate kids about the importance of today’s modern farming practices. “We as farmers work hard every day to grow and produce wholesome food to feed our nation and world and we love what we do and we’re committed to producing food in a responsible way,” Gratz said. Those messages are important, she said, as kids
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