On Tuesday May 25th - Eight Janesville elementary schools will visit the Daluge Dairy Farm and Arndt Farms, Inc. While on these two farms, the FFA members will serve as tour guides and teach the 4th grade students about where their food comes from. The stations at the Daluge dairy farm will include milking, milk house, calf huts (pictures here), small animals, Farm Safety, Dairy Products with ice cream, horses, and the free stall barn. 
While at the Arndt Farms, the students will see the beef feedlot, augie wagon and feeds, machine shop and equipment, sheep, mint, swine, wildlife, and how soybeans and corn are being used as something other than feed. Here are all the FFA members infront of the machinery station.
Prior to the farm tour, each of the classrooms are visited by FFA members. Use the power point game attached to the forms and applications to present to the classrooms.
The following schools will be visited at the times listed below.
Wilson Thursday 5/13 2 - 2:50 pm.
Harrison Friday 5/14 1:30-2:30 p.m.
Monroe Monday 5/10 1- 2 p.m.
Adams Monday 5/14 2-2:50 p.m.
Jackson Wednesday 5/12 2-3 p.m
Roosevelt Tuesday 5/18 1:30-2:30 p.m
Kennedy Wednesay 5/12 12:45-1:45 p.m.
Jefferson Tuesday May 24th 10:30-11:30 p.m.
Each school listed below, needs to report to the correct farm on May 25th at the times listed. If you have any questions, please see contact Mrs. Runde at 743-5187.
Morning Tour 8:45 a.m. Start at Daluge Dairy Farm (3719 S. Cty G)
Kennedy and Jefferson
Morning Tour 8:45 a.m. Start at Arndt Farms ( 5215 S. Read Road )
Harrison and Wilson
Afternoon Tour 12:15 p.m. Start at Daluge Dairy Farm (3719 S. Cty G )
Roosevelt and Moroe
Afternoon Tour Start at Arndt Farms (5215 S. Read Road )
Jackson and Adam
After the tour, the 4th graders are tested on their knowledge of agriculture and awarded an FFA T-shirt for placing well on the test.
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