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Kent Cassons View from the Cab column: Workshop offers educators lessons in agriculture

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Last year, the project reached 1,112 youth in Grades Pre-K through 12 in every school district and most private schools.

The event features seminars, vendors and a free lunch for farmers.

DeKok will be Wisconsin’s nominee for the National Excellence in Teaching Agriculture Award at the national conference next year.

Carmen DeKok is the recipient of this years Wisconsin Farm Bureaus Ag in the Classroom programs Outstanding Teacher Award. DeKok has been teaching in the Janesville School District for the

PHOTO PROVIDED Mrs. Jodie Walizer’s high school homeroom at Sugar Valley Rural Charter School released 70 Rainbow Fingerlings into Fishing Creek on May 5. Despite a rough start due to Covid sanitation of the classrooms, the class was able to successfully care for and raise the small trout to the point of release. When the students arrived at the stream, they began investigating to ensure they were releasing in a viable area. The students looked for Mayflies because their presence indicates th...

  LINCOLN, NEB.– The Nebraska Farm Bureau Foundation awarded the Ron Hanson Collegiate Leader Scholarship to two members of Collegiate Farm Bureau at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln (UNL) who are pursuing degrees from the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources (CASNR). Emily Reitz and Miranda Hornung, both juniors at CASNR, received $1,500 scholarships. Dr. Ron Hanson, professor emeritus at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, established the scholarship to reward s...

  REGINA -- The Queen City is continuing to experience growing pains on the education front as a new report from Regina Public Schools projects École Wascana Plains School in the Greens area of the city to reach to nearly double its capacity by 2025. The school’s capacity is listed as 650, with a current total of 861 students and an expectation to surpass 1,000 in 2022. As many as 1,310 are expected to be attending the school by 2025 if nothing is changed. The permanent solution is a ne...

Coffee & Conversation: Special thanks to livestock owners Victoria Hansen Special to The Journal-Standard Today, I found myself saying how thankful I was for the 14-degree temperature day, sun shining and the wind being at a minimum. The last few weeks really have tested the winter-loving part of me. The cold gloomy days make winter trudge on like maple syrup running up hill in January. I often find myself thinking of our livestock farmers on my drive to the office in the morning. I think about...