Farm lessons : Education turns green for area high school students
Posted: October 8, 2009 at 7:37 a.m.
Upton Siddons, left, a University of Arkansas research assistant for soybean physiology, talks to Brandon Watkins, right, and other Fayetteville High School students Wednesday during a sustainability field day at the university’s agricultural park in Fayetteville. Students from Bentonville and Fayetteville high schools toured the farm to learn what certain departments are doing to help with sustainability.
Riding around on bales of hay being hauled by tractors, Fayetteville and Bentonville high school students toured the University of Arkansas Agricultural Research and Extension Center with vehicles used on real farms. Science teacher Robin Buff of Fayetteville High School and Kim Murie of Bentonville brought students from their science classes to learn about the research in food and sustainability practices going on at the Fayetteville center.
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