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| Less than 2% of our population actually produces food on
farms, while over 20% of our nation's workforce is in some way, shape, or form involved in the processing, marketing, distribution, and sales of food and fiber products. And yet, little is taught in our schools about agriculture and the total food and fiber system. One of New York Ag in the Classroom's (NYAITC) objectives is to fill this void.  >> More Detail |
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| State Agriculture Commissioner Patrick Hooker reads Sugarbush Spring to a second-grade class in celebration of Agricultural Literacy Day 2008. Afterward, students participated in maple-related activities, and the book was donated to the school library. |  |
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