The AFBF Young Farmers and Ranchers committee has partnered with the Foundation for Agriculture to help educate today’s youth about agriculture. Sadly, many American’s are at least three generations removed from farming, making it crucial to tell the accurate story of agriculture to today’s youth. For many kids, the only exposure they have to a farm or farm animals is through television or the internet, which normally isn't an accurate image of modern agriculture.

The YF&R Committee is working to help change the way today’s youth learns about agriculture through the Accurate Ag Books program. Through Accurate Ag Books, the committee encourages all state committees and young farmers and ranchers across the U.S. to take an accurate book about agriculture into pre-school and kindergarten classes, giving kids an opportunity to have real access to a farmer or rancher and agriculture.

The committee has been promoting two books this year, as well as a planned activity to go along with each book to help the kids remember what they learned in the book. The two books are “A Seed In Need” by Sam Godwin and “I Drive A Tractor” by Sarah Bridges and Amy Bailey Muehlenhardt. We leave the books with the teachers to add to their library of books. Each year the Committee will promote a new book to help expand class libraries and reach more children.

To find out how you can become involved with the Accurate Ag Books program, contact a State Farm Bureau or a member of the AFBF YF&R Committee.