By paNOW Staff

From farm to food, students learn about Sask. agriculture

Apr 23, 2015 | 7:06 AM

It was two days of learning about Saskatchewan agriculture for more than 700 students from 25 different schools.

On Tuesday and Wednesday, the Prince Albert Exhibition showcased agricultural education at the Chilling with Agriculture event.

Patty Soloducha, assistant manager, said this event targets students in Grades 3-5.

“We want to teach them what agriculture is all about.  We’re the oldest agricultural society in Saskatchewan, so that’s one of our mandates is to get that information out to the public and what better way to do that is to educate the youth,” she said, adding this is also in the curriculum for these grades.

While there, students learned what soil is all about, what you can plant in it and what it feeds.

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“Basically, we want how their food gets into the grocery stores and how important agriculture in Saskatchewan is to overall food production in Canada, let alone the world,” she said.

 “There’s more of a public concern with how their food is produced and that it’s produced safely.  So we have commodity groups … like the Cattleman’s Association different producer groups like that, that are here to tell them that ‘no, our food is produced safe in here.  We do it in the safe and efficient manner that we can’ and, you know, the kids might not understand that but that’s something they can take home to their parents,” she said.

There were nine booths in the main hall including the agricultural and horticultural group from the Prince Albert Exhibition, Farm Credit Canada, Prince Albert Fire Department and Parkland Ambulance.

In the barn, there were chicken farmers, pork producers, horses and dairy farmers, among many others.

This show has been educating youth for the past 25 years, Soloducha said.

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