{"id":1500,"date":"2011-04-12T11:30:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T16:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2014-04-07T07:16:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T12:16:30","slug":"ffa-students-get-involved-in-ag-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/?p=1500","title":{"rendered":"FFA students get involved in Ag Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>By Patricia Ortiz<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgriculture is what keeps the world running,\u201d sophomore Bellinda Bottorff said. \u00a0Once every year third graders have an opportunity to learn about agriculture with Ag Day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAg Day is a day that is for third graders (from Plymouth, Bremen, La Paz and Argos) to learn about agriculture. \u00a0They learn about farming, soil, hogs, sheep, dairy cows, beef cattle, tractors, along with safety, 4-H and what it is, ducks nutrition, and electricity safety,\u201d Bottorff said. \u00a0Every year Ag Day is held in Centennial Park. This year, Ag Day was held on March 31, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sophomore Trenton Pletcher, FFA [Future Farmers of America] and the 4-H Junior leaders work together to help with Ag Day.<\/p>\n<p>Every participant in Ag Day has a role that he or she has to do during the day. \u00a0\u201cMy role was to encourage young children to join FFA and to educate them on all the possibilities FFA has to offer. \u00a0Also, [I tried] to show the importance of agriculture in America today,\u201d senior Katelynn Penny said. \u00a0Pletcher\u2019s role in Ag Day was to lead groups of children around the stations at the park. \u00a0\u201cI helped with the sheep shearing demonstration and led a group around to stations,\u201d Bottorff said.<\/p>\n<p>Ag Day teaches a variety of things to the people who attend it. \u00a0\u201cAg Day teaches the role of farmers and their animal. \u00a0It shows children how animals are fed, treated and loved. \u00a0Ag Day teaches the importance of the animals and what they produce to feed America,\u201d Penny said.<\/p>\n<p>Many students at Plymouth High School who went to Ag Day had a favorite part of Ag Day. \u00a0\u201cMy favorite part of Ag Day would be seeing all the kids faces when they learn all the interesting facts. \u00a0I also love all the animals that arrive. \u00a0The owners of these animals and the folks with the equipment, are so funny and they know so much. \u00a0Anybody could listen to what they have to say and learn a great deal from it,\u201d Bottorff said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patricia Ortiz \u201cAgriculture is what keeps the world running,\u201d sophomore Bellinda Bottorff said. \u00a0Once every year third graders have an opportunity to learn about agriculture with Ag Day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/178"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8863,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions\/8863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/social.plymouth.k12.in.us\/perspective\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}