Success StoryAg education Series



Ag education Series

Author: Hunter Carroll

Planning Unit: Jackson County CES

Major Program: Agriculture

Plan of Work: Agriculture Production and Marketing

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

For the 22-23 school year, the Jackson county agriculture agent has worked with the Jackson County High school Agriculture teacher and the Jackson County 4-H agent to do an educating ag students series. This series included artificial insemination, fruit tree grafting, BQCA, and Speech workshop and practice. thirty seven high school ag students were taught artificial insemination and learned to pass a breeding rod through a bovine reproductive tract, 28 students were taught to graft fruit trees and grafted their own tree to take home and plant. 20 students were trained in BQCA, and 22 students participated in a speech contest after participating with extension in a speech workshop where thy practiced speeches to extension agents and were critiqued and helped to make it better. This series allowed students who are interested in agriculture to discover what they liked about different areas of production. Since the series, three students won their speech area at region and four are going on to participate in state level FFA speeches, several have expressed interest in orchards, and some have been actively seeking on farm employment with local beef operations.






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