If you ever plan on traveling through Indiana, stop at Fair Oaks Farm. No, really, stop there and better yet, make your trip into an overnight stay. Fair Oaks Farm is a modern working farm and at the same time, designed for tourists to visit. The concept behind Fair Oaks Farm is to give visitors a real view of a…
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“Imagine being a 60-year old male in 1932. The stock market crash of 1929 has left you without a job and no money. Therefore, being down on your luck and wanting to find work and food, you hop on a railroad car and head west for hopefully a better life. As you enter Minnesota, you hear of a camp located…
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The headlines are blaring and loud. Smithfield shutting down their processing plant indefinitely. The panic is on. There will be a pork shortage. But as a pig farmer, let’s break it down to see what is really going on. Smithfield Foods Smithfield Foods employs 3700 people in their Sioux Falls plant. More than 550 family farms supply the plant with…
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Who Grew My Soup This lesson is from MN Ag in the Classroom curriculum matrix. There is a K-2 version and a Gr. 3-5 version. Time: Three 45-minute lessons. This is a great book and lesson. The kit will include the book, Who Grew My Soup (or you can also access it online). In fact, the online version has the…
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Little Red Hen – Part of MN Ag in the Classroom lessons. In this lesson students will use the story The Little Red Hen to learn about wheat production and bread making. Students will thresh their own wheat and grind it into flour to make bread. Included in this kit is wheat and a wheat grinder. 4 Activities. Activity 1 – Story of the Little Red Hen. Read Little Red Hen book. Use, first, next, then and finally…
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And to make this recipe that much better, add some tasty bacon to the menu! Because we raise pigs, we have plenty of bacon in our freezer. Can’t beat the taste!
