EAST HELENA – East Helena students had the chance to experience farm living and learn more about agriculture on Tuesday May 14 for the 3rd annual Lewis and Clark County Farm Bureau’s Ag Day.
The Prickly Pear Simmental Ranch hosted more than 140 kids for the annual event.
Volunteers taught the students about livestock, farming techniques, soil health, erosion and more.
Loretta Burnham, secretary of the Lewis and Clark County Farm Bureau, said Ag Day serves as a great way to teach kids where their food comes from and hopefully inspire some of them to consider a career in agriculture.
“Let’s face it, we have a whole bunch of people that we need to feed and our population in this world just keeps getting larger. We need people– our young people to learn this so they can take over for us down the road,” said Burnham.
Many students MTN spoke to said they’d never been on a working ranch before and were interested in the tractors, animals and methods for producing common food items.
“I didn’t realize it takes like so much to make milk that we drink,” said one young man.
Burnham added it’s great to see all of the kids, especially the ones who have never been on a farm or ranch before, be so interested and excited about agriculture in Montana.
More information about the Lewis and Clark County Farm Bureau can befound here.
