Ag Education Week: Get Involved

The agriculture industry in Kentucky is a community. We are thrilled you’re looking for ways to get involved with Ag Education Week! Read about the initiatives below and choose how you get involved with the next generation of agriculturalists.

THE FUTURE OF AG TOURS

The Future of Ag Tours allows middle and high school age students to explore careers in the ag industry through a Colleges of Ag Tour, where they explore the ag majors at a local university’s college of agriculture, and/or an Ag Processing Tour, where students explore careers transform agriculture commodities to products consumers recognize.

How you can help:
• Ag Processing Tour Sign Up
• To sign up as a university or college, email bethany.mattingly@ky.gov.
  (Last day to sign up for the spring Ag Education Week: January 30, last day to sign up for the fall Ag Education Week: July 30)

The Real Ag Experience

The Real Ag Experience allows students to experience and learn from people in the agriculture industry through farm/agribusiness tours. Thanks to the support of our agriculture industry, we can offer 300 tour locations across the state, but we can still use more locations! Our goal is to have at least 3 locations in every county. Find ag tour locations on The Real Ag Experience Map.

How you can help:

Farm/Agribusiness Tours:

• The Real Ag Experience: Farm/Agribusiness Tour Sign Up
  (Last day to sign up for the spring Ag Education Week: January 30, last day to sign up for the fall Ag Education Week: July 30)
• The Real Ag Experience: Farm/Agribusiness Resources

BRING AG TO THE CLASSROOM

Volunteers across Kentucky are stepping into classrooms as guest speakers and teachers to Bring Ag to the Classroom for students. With more than 150 volunteers, this initiative is making an impact, but is in need of more volunteers to cover classrooms across the state! Check out the Bring Ag to the Classroom Contact List (link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PY-LYipFZ1yPqleFgLLna8iyKK7qewAs/view?usp=drive_link)

How you can help:
• Bring Ag to the Classroom Sign Up Last day to sign up for the spring Ag Education Week: January 30, last day to sign up for the fall Ag Education Week: July 30
• Bring Ag to the Classroom Resources
• Corduroy and Clover Crew Resources

Stories About Ag

In partnership with Kentucky Farm Bureau, the Stories About Ag Initiative has volunteers go to their local schools to read books about agriculture to students. Use the Sign Up below to be contacted by your local Women’s Committee representative to join in the reading experience. Find a list of ag books at: https://www.agfoundation.org/books.

How you can help:

Volunteer to read-aloud:
• Stories About Ag: Sign Up
• Stories About Ag: Resource
• Find our Stories About Ag Virtual Real Aloud Library