2006 Ag Day Materials Are Now Available

Because of your role in American agriculture, you know just how important our industry is to the world. Agriculture is responsible for providing food, fiber and shelter; the very essentials of life. But too few people recognize this vital contribution.

That's what National Ag Day is all about, reminding Americans of the role of agriculture in their daily lives. Widespread national awareness efforts are planned to call attention to Ag Day 2006, but we need your help to bring this message to all of our communities!

Ag Day Planning Guide
To help you get the word out in your community, we are again providing the Ag Day Planning Guide filled with tools and tips to help make the most of this important celebration. Inside the Guide, you'll find a number of helpful tools, such as: Fun and easy ideas for Ag Day events; tips from individuals and groups who have hosted past events; strategies for building support and awareness for your event; a sample press release, radio public service announcements and other tools to make your efforts easier.

Ag Day Poster
In addition to the Guide, the 2006 Ag Day Poster is also available. This year's poster, A Celebration of Agriculture, is the third in a series of five and features the South.

Ag Fact Cards
The Ag Fact Cards tell how agriculture impacts our lives by connecting it to something everyone can identify with... jeans, pizza and tortillas! The cards open to provide related agriculture production information, all in a compact business-card size.

Ag Day Lapel Pin
Show your support of agriculture and National Ag Day/Week, purchase the new Ag Day Lapel Pin. Lapel pins are $5.00 each and supplies are limited.

To order your Ag Day Materials, visit, https://nama.org/aca/onlineform.htm.

If you haven't visited the Ag Day web site in a while, stop by and take a look (www.agday.org). In celebration of Ag Day 2006, we want to help you get the word out about your upcoming Ag Day event. Just fill out the on-line Ag Day Event Form (http://www.agday.org/eventform.htm), and you'll see your event posted on the Ag Day Calendar along with a link describing your event in greater detail. If you have logo's, brochures (brochures can be placed as an Adobe .PDF format for downloading), etc., that you want to include in your Ag Day announcement, please e-mail them to Kathi Conrad at info@agday.org.

Don't forget, under the “Ag Day Education” section of the web site, is a list of Teacher Ag Resource and Lesson Plan Links. Each link on this page will take educators to other web sites that have agricultural resources and/or lesson plans available for classroom education and activities. In addition the listing of Fun Agricultural Web Sites for Kids is also available again. This section lists links to web sites that have agricultural related activities for children to expand their ag knowledge.

Visit the Ag Day Web Site at http://www.agday.org.

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