News Release

WARSAW — The 27th annual Ag Day will be Tuesday and Wednesday, April 15 and 16, at the Kosciusko County Fairgrounds.

About 1,050 fourth-grade students from Warsaw, Tippecanoe Valley, Whitko, Wawasee, Sacred Heart and Lakeland Christian Academy will attend the event. Each class will visit 12 educational booths on horticulture, 4-H, crops, swine, beef, chickens, dairy, soil and water quality, ducks, farm machinery, horses and farm safety. At each booth students will participate in an eight-minute educational demonstration. In addition to participating in these activities, teachers and students will also receive an educational packet containing information from each station.

The Kosciusko County Ag Day is an annual event that provides fourth-grade classes in Kosciusko County with the opportunity to learn more about agriculture through a pre- and post-test, in addition to the day’s presentations. Nearly 200 volunteers and sponsors help make Ag Day activities possible.

Ag Day is sponsored by the Kosciusko County Agriculture Awareness Committee, Extension Office, Farm Bureau, County Community Foundation, Cargill Animal Nutrition and Farm Credit Mid America and is supported by the Kosciusko County Community Fair.