High school FFA students from Murray school became teachers themselves during the morning during the third grade field day Sept. 17.
Justin Jones, Cody Mann, Levi Snyder and Warren Snyder took charge of the farm equipment safety learning station.
Mann and Snyder demonstrated the dangers of auger wagons and the landslide effects of corn that could easily bury someone in a grain bin. Jones and Snyder explained the importance of tractor and other farm equipment safety to the students.
They showed the proper and improper places to stand to get the driver’s attention and some of the safety features on the big tractor that allows it to be on the road day and/or night – many mirrors to see all angles around, flashing lights for caution, seat belt, handles to hold to climbing into the tractor and closing doors around the driver.
The students were informed about the purpose of the tractor and the mower/conditioner behind it and they were able to see the final results with the bales they were sitting on. The students lined up and took turns climbing into the tractor and sitting in the seat, giving them the opportunity to see the world the way a farmer does every day on a tractor.
Clarke County Farm Bureau gives thanks to the FFA students for taking time out of their schedule to make presentations.