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Impact Report

For plan Profitable Livestock Production (Roosevelt County)
Date October 27, 2009, 9:39 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Kids, Kows, and More is an outstanding educational program which brings local fourth graders from around Curry and Roosevelt Counties and exposes them to agriculture. This is an annual program that occurs in the late spring of each year bringing together all agents from both counties no matter what their discipline in order to successfully complete this event. Kids, Kows, and More offers students the opportunity to participate in hands on learning with educational stations about such things as milk production, row crops, beef production, and vegetables. This agent firmly believes that our job is not only to serve county clientele that already know about agriculture but also to educate the general public about agriculture. Without education of the general public there would be no basis to explain the need for agriculture in the United States. Many students today have no concept of the means required to produce the food they eat everyday. This learning experience exposes them to many of these agriculture practices and products that make a huge impact on the local economy. This agent also knows that because of their participation in this program roughly 1000 students a year have a greater understanding of the role of agriculture in their daily lives. Kids, Kows, and More provides a platform from which students can establish basic knowledge about local agriculture. Hopefully with these building blocks in place students can build on this knowledge base as they grow and they will better understand how agriculture impacts their lives. Kids, Kows, and More brings roughly 1000 students, teachers, volunteers, and instructors together from Curry and Roosevelt Counties and Parmer County, Texas for this two day event. Kids, Kows, and More also provides a great opportunity for senior 4-H members to serve in leadership roles such as group leaders. This agent has served in multiple capacities and as a co-coordinator for this event in order to see the program through successfully.