Students Learn Impact of Agriculture in Everyday Life

Second graders in a Jefferson County, Wisc., elementary school were awaken to the realities of agriculture. "When you think of what we get from agriculture you probably think of food, but Wisconsin agriculture is much more," says Tracy Brandel, coordinator of the Jefferson County Ag in the Classroom project. Brandel surprised the students when she told them that corn syrup in their candy, cotton in their shirts and ink in their textbooks all comes from agriculture. Read more (Wisconsin State Farmer).