Ag in The Classroom for a week each April at the Red River Valley Fairgrounds and invites various Ag organizations throughout the state to come and participate. Ag in the Classroom gives 4th and 5th graders from around the region a chance to learn about agriculture. The Saddle and Sirloin Club brings livestock from the research units at NDSU and members sign up for times to come and talk to the kids about each animal and its role in the livestock industry. Over 2500 preschoolers and kindergarteners come to Shepperd Arean each spring and learn about animals. The chairs of this event try to scrounge up as many different animals as they can from horses to rats.
Students take groups of kids on a tour around the arena and talk about the animals.
For most of these kids this is there first experience to see and touch agriculture. The club consigs pigs and lambs from North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Iows and sells the livestock for propective 4-H and FFA projects at the sale in late April. Each year the sale grow in both consigners and buyers. The club organizes one last social event of the year. The last Saturday in April is dedicated to the annual Spring Picnic.