[March 22, 2013]    

Fourth-grade students of Logan County were taken to the YMCA Odd Fellows building on Wednesday for a special day of learning. Students were shown a number of exhibits displaying various aspects of farming. The children learned about equipment, dairy, pork production, and corn and beans.

District 27 students were present in the morning, and students from Zion Lutheran in Lincoln and Mount Pulaski, as well as New Holland-Middletown students.

The event was sponsored by the Logan County Farm Bureau, the Lincoln YMCA and the Logan FFA groups.

Text and pictures by Derek Hurley

Allen Sasse informs the students on the various devices on large tractors, and how to be safe when near them. Students visited this station first due to the cold temperatures.

 

Students entered a trailer two at a time to pet a dairy cow owned by Todd Irwin.

New Holland fourth-graders listening to older students from the Hartsburg-
Emden FFA talk about power takeoff, known as PTO, and grain bins.