When developing best management practices for recycling nutrients, not only do the plans need to be implemented by farmers and feeders, but the public needs to be assured of how the environment is benefiting. T hose are a few of our challenges. Most service clubs welcome presentations that are informative and entertaining. Be sure to invite the local press for hopefully favorable coverage. The Ag in the Classroom program promotes literacy.
Students learn about the food, fiber and natural resource industries.
Materials and a teachers manual are provided free of charge from Colorado Foundation for Agriculture. In Colorado, when farmers divert water from the rivers downstream of the cities and irrigate their fields of crops like corn, they are recycling both nitrogen and phosphorous. The corn and other green plants help clean up the air by removing carbon dioxide, and oxygen is released back into the air. Livestock farmers help the environment by recycling inedible byproducts from the food industry as animal feed. Video productions for and about agriculture can be done.