—Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, May 12,1979
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Elementary children
learn about agriculture
ELVERSON - Children at
the Robeson Elementary
School are learning about
agriculture this week from
TVin Valley High School
vocational agriculture
students who are involved
with agriculture on a fir
sthand basis. The instructors
for the elementary students
are all members of the Twin
Valley Chapter of the Future
Farmers of America (FFA)
who are conducting the
agriculture class for the
elementary school children
as part of the FFA’s “Food
For America” program, the
organization’s effort to
better rural-urban un
derstanding.
“Food for America” is
designed to improve
leadership abilities in FFA
members while com
municating the story of
modern agriculture to
elementary school children.
Parents of the youngsters
are also included in the new
materials, with some of the
activities requiring the child
to take a problem or two
home for parental input,
thereby gaining the attention
of the adults.
Chapter members and
instructors serve as
discussion leaders in the
classroom, utilizing a set of
instructional resource
materials that includes an
activity resource book
containing ten duplicating
masters good to make
several hundred copies of
the educational games in
cluded. Elementary school
teachers will be able to
utilize the book to provide
their classes with a complete
unit on agriculture - how
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the table.
The entire “Food For
America” project is co
sponsored through the
National FFA Foundation,
Inc., by three agricultural
businesses: American
Breeders Service, Division
of W.R. Grace and Com
pany; J I Case, A Tenneco
Company, and Mobay
Chemical Corporation.
Funds from the sponsoring
companies and from the
FFA Foundation General
Fund have been used to
develop and distribute
resource materials and to
offset the costs of
distributing the film.
The FFA appears to be in a
uniquely favorable position
to tackle the issue ot im
proving producer-consumer
understanding and people’s
understanding of
agriculture. With over
507,000 members across the
nation in 9000 high schools,
they are able to provide the
human contact to many
individuals, right along with
the visual and printed in
formation.
“We are concerned that so
few young people un
derstand where their food
comes from,” says Twin
Valley Food For America
chairman Lewis Kohl. Our
members are well qualified
to help elementary school
children learn about
agriculture because of the
knowledge and experience
we’ve gained in the
vocational agriculture
courses and by
perience on the farv aMin
local agricultural
businesses.’’
Following the classroom
instruction and film on
agriculture, chapter
members have arranged to
bring several farm animals
and other agricultural
displays to the school.
Children will have an op
portunity to see and touch
live farm animals and farm
crops. For many it will be
the first exposure to the
animals and crops that
provide their daily food.
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If doing is believing, then
Maryland farmers are
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in no-till and minimum
tillage planting techniques.
According to a survey by
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of Maryland’s corn acreage
and 52 per cent of its soybean
acreage was planted by
these methods.
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' quality requirements which
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Placements of broiler chicks
in the commonwealth during
the week ending April 28
were 12 per cent above the
, corresponding week a year
ago, according to the Penn
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Service.
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2,249,000, two per cent below
the previous week. Average
placements during the past
nine weeks were 13 per cent
above a year earlier.
Placements of broiler
chicks in the 21 key poultry
producing states were
83,270,000, one per cent
above the previous week and
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effort.”
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week a year earlier.
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the past nine weeks were ten
per cent above a year ago.
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fryers slaughtered in
Pennsylvania under federal
inspection during the week
ending April 18 was 1,427,000,
with an average weight of
4.07 pounds.
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