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Students learn about Nebraska agriculture

Fourth-graders from Lincoln’s Cathedral School learned more about where their food comes from Wednesday during an Ag Sack Lunch presentation in Lincoln.

The program offers students who are visiting the state capitol on school field trips a free sack lunch featuring foods produced in Nebraska.  While they eat their lunch, college-age “Ag Ambassadors” visit with them about agriculture.

Afterwards, we asked some of the fourth-graders what they learned.

AUDIO: Students from Lincoln’s Cathedral School

Ag Ambassador Emma Likens likes sharing the story of Nebraska agriculture “and some of the rural values that not everybody knows about if you didn’t grow up around it.”

Ambassador Emily Long enjoys helping students make the connection between the food they eat and Nebraska farmers and ranchers.

“I love seeing how much they do learn when they come up to us—the look on their faces after we tell them something, like some really fact about agriculture,” Long says. “You can just see the appreciation growing in them for Nebraska agriculture. I think that’s really cool.”

AUDIO: Emma Likens and Emily Long

The Ag Sack Lunch program is sponsored by the Nebraska Soybean Board, Nebraska Corn Board and Nebraska Pork Producers Association.

Photo: Emma Likens (left) and Emily Long discuss Nebraska agriculture with fourth-graders from Lincoln’s Cathedral of the Risen Christ School