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29
Mar

Play with Your Food: A Hands-on Corn Kernel for Classroom Activities

Person attaching the second piece of pull-apart corn kernel model

Did your parents ever have to tell you, “Don’t play with your food!” when you were…

15
Mar

Perfect Poultry-Themed Pictures: A Chicken Photo Op

The chicken face cutout board

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” We always keep that proverb in mind, since our…

01
Mar

How to Talk with Consumers about Farming

Man giving speech to a few adults

“Grass-fed” vs. “grass-finished.” “Antibiotic-free” vs. “raised without antibiotics.” “Not-organic” vs. “conventional.” Recognize these phrases? In each…

26
Feb

Meet an Ag Educator! Samantha Meyer, Farmamerica

Yellow graphic; text reads "Meet an Ag Educator: Samantha Meyer, Program Director at Farmamerica"

We spend a lot of our time working with the people who are trying to give…

15
Feb

Soil Sleuths: Two Interactive Soil Science Displays

Closeup of graphics explaining the differences between different tillage methods

Soil’s kind of like air in some ways. It’s all around us, it’s easy to overlook,…

01
Feb

Giving People a Personal Connection to Farming

Family feeding sheep through a fence

Ask any of your fellow ag educators, “What’s the biggest barrier to agricultural literacy?” and see…

18
Jan

Watch Out for Wilt: A Lifelike Model of Goss’ Wilt Disease

Lifelike replica of corn plant showing effects of Goss’ wilt disease

We really like plants at Exhibit Farm. Corn plants, soybean plants, sugarbeet plants. And we especially…

04
Jan

How to Address Challenges to Agricultural Literacy

Split rail fence in front of a grassy field

Happy New Year, and welcome to the start of a new blog series! Like last year’s…

21
Dec

Don’t Bite This Bacon! Realistic Fake Meat

Hand holding an artificial pork chop

We make a lot of artificial plants around here. Whether it’s some corn, some soybeans at…

07
Dec

How to Research Food Controversies: Answering Consumers’ Questions

Woman examines a nutrition label in a grocery store

We’ve talked about a lot of common questions in this series. But there’s so many others…