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Impact Report

For plan Youth Development (Sierra County)
Date September 28, 2007, 3:35 pm
For Objective Short-term Show short-term objectives
Impact Report Only two percent of the U.S. population currently deals on the regular bases with agriculture and many youth in Sierra County do not know where there food comes from. In an effort to educate youth in Sierra county of the importance of their food supply the agricultural community along with leadership from the agent have banned together to create an annual Agricultural day for community youth. The impact that this program offers to Sierra County youth is the basic understanding of the different aspects of Sierra County agriculture such as wool production, honey production, the importance of insects and their control, farm production, cattle and dairy production, the grocery industry, as well nitch markets in Sierra County. This year over 400 youth attended Ag. Day and gained knowledge of the over whelming ties that agriculture plays in society. Youth were presented a presentation on each agricultural entity and the role that the industry plays. Youth returned to their schools and discussed what they had learned. According to the teachers 95% of the youth understood that with out agriculture and farmland people would not be able to feed themselves. 65% of the youth also pointed out the different industries that were presented and how they are linked to one another. Several stated that they would like to have a career in agriculture.