This is the third year in the 27-year history of Greene County Farm Bureau’s 4th grade farm tour that Cale and Connor Juergensen have hosted the event.
The tour was held Tuesday, Sept. 14, on the Juergensen family farm north of Churdan where Connor and his wife Lindsay live. Usually held every year for county 4th grade students, this year’s event also included 5th graders because the event did not take place last September due to Covid.
Ninety-eight 4th graders spent the morning at the farm, and 96 5th graders were there for the afternoon. Stations were organized by the county Farm Bureau. All presenters were volunteer. The stations were ag-related and 11 minutes in length.
Board member John McCormick welcomed both the morning and afternoon groups of students. The 4th graders ate lunch after rotating through all 10 stations and were then bussed back to school for the remainder of the day. In the afternoon, 5th graders ate lunch first, then rotated through the 10 stations, and were bussed back to school in time to be dismissed for the day.
Stations included: drones – Chance Paup; pigs – Sophie Hansen, AMVC Management Services; ag games – Greene County FFA students; farm safety – Greene County FFA students and Mark Naberhaus; sheep – Steve and Julie Karber; conservation/cover crops – Schyler Bardole; corn – Mike Finarty, Iowa Corn Growers Association; Ag in the Classroom – Marcia Hagedorn, Boone County Farm Bureau AITC coordinator; soybeans – Greene County FFA students; and cattle – Cale Juergensen and Brent Schroeder.
Greene County Farm Bureau was pleased to have FFA students Madison Grow, Logan Higgins, Max Riley, Carter Fecher, Gavin Scheuermann, Landon Carstens, Graci Cooklin, Grace Curtis, Gabe Ebersole, Trey Schilling, Shai Woodley, Kaitlin Fields, and instructor Raelyn Harris attend and help. The FFA students were a great help and presented at several stations.
