Looking for Bright Ideas to Promote Ag?
Published
8/3/2023
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Ag Promotion Ideas
- Host an "Ask a Farmer" campaign at a local grocery store.
- Plant a community garden.
- Work with your local historical society to do a then and now agricultural exhibit.
- Conduct a Facebook live video on a tractor during planting or harvest.
- Gather a group of farmers to glean produce for a local food bank.
- Create a garden club with the local senior center.
- Work with your local library to make an "accurate agriculture" book nook, or summer reading program.
- Obtain new followers on your county social media platforms.
- Host a corn pit at a local festival or fair.
- Sell t-shirts promoting agriculture.
- Provide t-shirts to county FB members who post photos of themselves on their farm.
- Share agricultural facts on your county Farm Bureau social media platforms.
- Gather canned goods or fresh produce to donate to your local food bank. (Donations typically go down during the summer, but the need is high.)
- Create Reels raising agriculture awareness.
- Create a county Farm Bureau parade float.
- Bring your tractor to the grocery store.
- Host a Chamber of Commerce lunch.
- Bring your drone (or other farm technology) to schools, career days, chamber of commerce lunches.
- Host a "Moms of Preschoolers" day at your farm.
- Write an Ag op-ed piece for your local newspaper or promote Agriculture on a local radio station.
- Partner with your Farm Bureau insurance agent to conduct the biggest pumpkin contest.
- Give away a Utah's Own food basket to teachers and/or nurses in your district for Teacher Appreciation Week or Nurses Appreciation Week.
- Host a live remote Zoom web conference from your farm. Zoom into organizations like city councils, etc.
- Plan a Farm Bureau prep (and recruitment) night for your local FFA chapter prior to contests.
- Be a guest speaker at a collegiate Farm Bureau meeting.
- Serve as a discussion meet judge.
- Work with your county to host a Miracle of Ag benefit event.
- Challenge county Farm Bureau members to post a #WhyIFarm photo on social media.
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