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Farm Fair

Date: May 9, 2012 - May 11, 2012

Event Description  GALLATIN VALLEY AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
                       Belgrade and Bozeman Area Chambers of Commerce
            10 East Main Street – Belgrade, MT  59714-3713 – (406) 388-1616 
 
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Dear Fourth Grade Teacher:
 
Plans are underway for our Eighth Annual “Farm Fair” for fourth grade students.  This is an all-day educational program about agriculture.  Individual workstations will give instruction about different phases and operations regarding agriculture.  A volunteer group leader will conduct students through the stations on fifteen-minute intervals. 
 
            DATE:            Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, May 8th, May 9th and 10th, 2012
 
            LOCATION:    Edwin and Alice (Punky) Brainard Ranch         
                                    550 Cow Chip Road f/k/a 3030 West Dry Creek Road – Belgrade, MT
                                    (a map will be provided with attendance confirmation)
 
            TIME:              Arrive at ranch             9:15 A.M.
                                    Depart from ranch        2:30 P.M.
A barbeque hamburger lunch at 11:30 A.M. will be provided free of charge for everyone attending.
 
            REGISTRATION:
 
If your school is planning to attend “Farm Fair” 2012, please reply as soon as possible.  Registrationdeadline is November 28, 2011.   An e-mail reply to dyoungberg@belgradechamber.org        is encouraged, or mail to “Farm Fair” 2012, c/o Debe Youngberg, 10 East Main Street, Belgrade, MT  59714.  Daily classes are limited to three hundred (300) students each day.  A maximum of 900 students will be accepted.  It is critical you register as soon as possible to avoid classes being filled prior to receipt of your registration.  With continued requests from Gallatin County schools to attend “Farm Fair” we are scheduling an additional day.   We have listed a third day on your Registration form to achieve handling these additional students.   
 
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) Compliance:
The Gallatin Valley Agriculture Committee would liketo share photos taken during “Farm Fair” in news releases to the media as well as photos and student written “Thank You’s” when requesting grant funding.  If you have any students in your class whose student directory information should NOT be released, please circle NO on your registration form. Otherwise, please circle YES, so that in the event photos or other written material are used, they may be shared with the media and granting agencies.  


Event Location FAIR” DESCRIPTION:
 
The Gallatin Valley Agriculture Committee is made up of volunteers representing agri-business, natural resources conservation, and education in Gallatin County.  Gallatin County has over nine hundred (900) fourth grade students in the public school system, with additional fourth grade students being home schooled and in several private schools.  More than 4,0004th grade students with their teachers have attended this program to date.  The “Farm Fair” consists of an all-day, one-day, on ranch site educational program about basic agriculture, agri-science, soil science, plant science and environmental topics.  The “Farm Fair” is administered entirely by professional volunteers, including farm and ranch owners.
 
In each field represented, professional people staff fifteen-minute stations.  Group leaders are assigned to individual student groups of twenty (20) or less students and will rotate their assigned students through each of the stations throughout the day.  Curriculum stations are: water cycle; bees/pollination; weeds identification; irrigation/soil conservation/crop rotation; forestry; beef cattle; dairy cattle; dairy goats; sheep (ewe to you); pigs: pleasure horses; draft horses; Gallatin Valley crops; farm safety; making ice cream; story of wheat (crop to you); and 4-H.  Demonstrations will include a wagon-ride trip into an adjoining field to explain soil conservation, crop rotation and observe a working irrigation system.   
 
An on-site First Aid ambulance, staffed by paramedics, is provided by the Gallatin Valley Fire District.  Security is provided by the Gallatin Sheriff Posse.
 
The goal of the Gallatin Valley Agriculture Committee’s  “Farm Fair” is to provide a rural ranch atmosphere where students and teachers have the opportunity to see and touch where our basic food supply originates, the related sciences, how it is prepared for processing for human consumption, and to demonstrate agriculture’s commitment to protecting the natural resources on which it depends.
 
Testimony information is available from teachers that attended prior year “Farm Fair’s”, upon request from us.  
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Belgrade Chamber of Commerce
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o: (406) 388-1616 f:(406)388-2090
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