According to the Ag Day website, “It’s a day to recognize and celebrate the abundance provided by agriculture. Every year, producers, agricultural associations, corporations, universities, government agencies and countless others across America join together to recognize the contributions of agriculture.
Ag Day is about recognizing – and celebrating – the contribution of agriculture in our everyday lives. The National Ag Day program encourages every American to:
- Understand how food and fiber products are produced.
- Value the essential role of agriculture in maintaining a strong economy.
- Appreciate the role agriculture plays in providing safe, abundant and affordable products.
Agriculture provides almost everything we eat, use and wear on a daily basis. But too few people truly understand this contribution. This is particularly the case in our schools, where students may only be exposed to agriculture if they enroll in related vocational training.
By building awareness, the Agriculture Council of America is encouraging young people to consider career opportunities in agriculture.
Each American farmer feeds more than 144 people … a dramatic increase from 25 people in the 1960s. Quite simply, American agriculture is doing more – and doing it better. As the world population soars, there is an even greater demand for the food and fiber produced in the United States.”
Today is also HD’s 2nd birthday! Since he shares his birthday this year with National Ag Day, below are some of my favorite agriculture pictures of him over the past two years.
If you have any questions about agriculture in general or about a specific topic, please don’t hesitate to contact me by leaving a comment below! I love to hear back from my readers! Also, you can find a lot of helpful information at the CommonGround website!
Happy birthday little man and happy National Ag Day everyone!!!
Gotta love the husker red!! Sorry Kevin! (not really) 🙂
Good job with the blog. Love it when farmers document their daily lives as it’s not the same in every state or other countries. Having done farming in Iran and now studying Ag. Engineering at Purdue I find blogs specially interesting as they give me first hand experience of how farming is like in the farming haven of the planet! 🙂
Keep it up!