Learn About Your County's Farms on National Ag Day
Even wonder what crops and animals are grown where you live? What about the number of farms in your county? National Ag Day is Tuesday, March 23, and we would love to help you learn the importance of farming in your community. Find your county below to learn more.
Your teacher may want to print off this worksheet so you have all the information in one place - Agriculture Where I Live
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Ballard | Barren | Bath | Bell | Boone | Bourbon | Boyd | Boyle | Bracken | Breathitt Breckinridge | Bullitt | Butler
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Caldwell | Calloway | Campbell | Carlisle | Carroll | Carter | Casey | Christian | Clark | Clay | Clinton | Crittenden | Cumberland
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Fayette | Fleming | Floyd | Franklin | Fulton
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Gallatin | Garrard | Grant | Graves | Grayson | Green | Greenup
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Hancock | Hardin | Harlan | Harrison | Hart | Henderson | Henry | Hickman | Hopkins
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Jackson | Jefferson | Jessamine | Johnson
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Larue | Laurel | Lawrence | Lee | Leslie | Letcher | Lewis | Lincoln | Livingston | Logan | Lyon
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Madison | Magoffin | Marion | Marshall | Martin | Mason | McCracken | McCreary | McLean| Meade | Menifee | Mercer | Metcalfe | Monroe | Montgomery | Morgan | Muhlenberg
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Pendleton | Perry | Pike | Powell | Pulaski
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Robertson | Rockcastle | Rowan | Russell
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Scott | Shelby | Simpson | Spencer
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Taylor | Todd | Trigg | Trimble
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Warren | Washington | Wayne | Webster | Whitley | Wolfe | Woodford
Kentucky Academic Standards:
Social Studies - Economics K.E.MA.1, 1.E.KE.1, 2.E.KE.1, 2.E.ST.1, 3.E.KE.1, 4.E.MI.1, 4.E.KE.1, 5.E.KE.1
Financial Literacy - Financial Decisions
Discussion Questions:
K/1st - Why do we need farmers?
K/1st - What would happen if we did not have farmers in our community?
2nd - What are reasons a farmer may choose to produce food?
3rd - What are examples of resources that farmers use to produce food? Which are limited, renewable, and non-renewable?
4th - Explain the roles of producers, consumers, products, and labor that make the agriculture system in Kentucky work.
4th - What factors influenced what early Kentuckians produced on farms? See "Kentucky Agriculture" video below.
5th - How has Kentucky agriculture changed and what has influenced that change? See "Kentucky Agriculture" video below.
Financial Literacy - Discuss why we may want to purchase food directly from farmers in our community – it supports local businesses and ensures those goods will be there in the future. Buying local also allows consumers to have a relationship with their farmers to know how they produced the food and are taking care of the environment. Fresh foods produced locally may also be fresher since they did not have a long way to travel from the farm to a grocery store. Convenience and cost are also factors. Is buying local food convenient? Cost more or less? These are community/regional issues.
