A fifth grade school student from Brown County is the statewide winner of the Agriculture in the Classroom's Essay Contest. Mollie Goral's paper was about corn's value to our state's economy.
"Lend me your ears and I promise it will be a-maize-ing as we journey through the importance of corn to Wisconsin," a portion of the essay said. "We grow multiple kinds of corn for many different uses that stretch beyond our state's boundaries. Wisconsin contributes more than 3 million acres of fields to the corn industry and is best known for grain corn, but there are also fields of popcorn, sweet corn, and flint corn."
Goral attends Denmark Elementary School. She was one of over 1,500 students who wrote essays for the competition. Each district winner will receive a prize package including a plaque.
The essay contest is sponsored by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation, Wisconsin Soybean Program and We Energies.
Other district winners were Kathryn Sorenson, Allenton; Autymn Norton, Juda; Ariana Reinsbach, Fennimore; Ayva Tulip, Pepin; Kendall Carley, Omro; Sylvia Spear, New London; Jacob Marti, Wisconsin Rapids; and Astrid Sommerfeld, Luck.
The Ag in the Classroom is a program to help students K-12 to explain the importance of agriculture.
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