Fieldtrip. Remember back in elementary when the teacher said fieldtrip and everyone got all excited? The big yellow bus would roll up and everyone would jam into the back of the bus where the teacher couldn't hear what was being said or done.
We'd put the windows down and inhale nineteen pounds of gravel dust as we traveled to the farm to see a goat and three pink piglets and learn that packing peanuts were made from corn and were edible. (I think when I tried eating one of those peanuts I got a styrofoam one, not corn syrup based...it was definitely not edible.)
Anyway, college students get all excited when they get to leave the classroom too, more for the reason that there is a distraction that keeps them awake than entertaining. Earlier this month the Ag Eds 327X class came for a farm tour looking for an understanding of what the 450 farm does on a day to day basis. About 30 students came to see the farm and received a brief tour by the public relations committee and were briefed on the operations and goals of the farm.
Group viewing hog building
The warm shop was welcome by all.
