The current population in well removed from the daily agriculture production system.  This leads to a lot of misinformation about how food is produced and the safety of the food being produced.  One way to help combat this misinformation is by allowing the public to tour farms and maybe even bringing a small part of the farm to them.  During this program year over 700 youth have been exposed to the dairy industry in a positive manner through dairy farm tours, agriculture field trips, and schools agriculture days.   The youth learned about the dairy industry through hands on activities related to the dairy industry like making butter.  The youth also saw the different commodities that are fed to livestock and how they utilize those commodities.  The youth were able to see how milk is properly handled at the farm level, how cows are treated in a safe and humane manner, and about careers in the dairy industry.  There were several school and county partnerships as well as dairy promotion partners throughout the state that made these events possible.   This is a very small step in educating our urban consumers about where their food comes from and that is a very safe and nutritional product.