Wisconsin Ag Connection - Chilton Student Wins Ag in the Classroom Essay Contest

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Chilton Student Wins Ag in the Classroom Essay Contest
Wisconsin Ag Connection - 05/29/2020

A fourth grader school student from Calumet County is the statewide winner of the Agriculture in the Classroom's Essay Contest. Lindsay Geiger's paper was about how Wisconsin agriculture has affected her life today.

"Agriculture gives us food, clothes and jobs. It gives us dairy products, meat, vegetable, fruits and grains," Lindsay's winning essay concluded. "Farmers provide us with fabric like cotton, wool, and leather. People are then able to turn these fabrics into the clothes we wear as well as sheets, towels, purses, shoes, blankets, sweatshirts and many, many more items. These items are essential to people in our community."

Geiger attends Chilton Area Catholic School She was one of nearly 1,600 students who wrote essays for the competition. Each district winner will receive a prize package including a yard sign, Culvers gift card, plaque and a selection of books.

The essay contest is sponsored by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation and We Energies.

Other district winners were Breanna Wolfgram, Watertown; Briella Brusveen, Cambria; Abby Kane, Viroqua; Alyssa Tubbs, Hixton; Josephine Quam, Winneconne; Brianna Birling, Clintonville; Annalia Regalado-Brown, Hamburg; and Madelyn Malone, Elk Mound.

The Ag in the Classroom is a program to help students K-12 to explain the importance of agriculture.

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