Education

SCHOOL  groups

TO REGISTER* – Please fill out the form at the bottom of this page.

 

We  appreciate  knowing  your  classroom  or  group  plans  to  attend  the  Farm  Festival.   Please  complete  the  registration  form  below. 

*If  registration  is  submitted  by  March  1,  you  are  guaranteed  a  teacher’s  bag  containing  educational  materials  for  your  group. 

**Registration  is  NOT  required  to  attend  the  event.

 

Teacher   Bag   Educational   Materials   Donors

American Dairy Association Indiana

Delaware County Farm Bureau

Indiana Pork

Indiana Sheep Association

Indiana State Poultry Association

Indiana Soybean Alliance

Indiana Corn Marketing Council

Indiana Corn Growers Association

National Watermelon Board

  • To Register

  • Sign up must be completed by March 12, 2024.

Here are some of the educational opportunities

at the 2024 Farm Festival:

COMMUNITY BUILDING

  • Corn Maze furnished by A-1 For Fun (Bob Walsh)

Farm Animals

  • Cows will be available for milking also
  • We are unsure of how many farm animals will be available this year.  We will try to update as we find out.

Horses

  • Different sizes of horses ranging from quarter horses to miniature horses

Sheep Shearing

  • Performed by Gary Willcox From Wabash, IN and Assisted by Becky Daughtery & FFA Members

Farming Implements

  • You can see the difference between the size of the implements and the time it takes to farm, from the “old days” to now
  • Large Farm Implements
  • Antique Horse-Drawn Farm Implements

Other Interests

  • Blacksmithing -narrated  by Phillip Hatton
  • Saw Mill
  • There will be a large variety of  antique and new machinery
  • There will be an old-fashioned “outhouse” and a “pitcher pump”

MEMORIAL BUILDING

Woodcarvers

  • They will demonstrate how they carve small handheld figures, animals, and other gadgets from wood

Other Interests

Scholarship

>> Download the the PDF of the Delaware County Farm Festival Ag Scholarship.

2024 Delaware County Farm Festival Scholarship Program
The Delaware County Farm Festival Committee offers scholarships of $500 annually through our organizational scholarship program designed to help students pursue an education with a preference in agriculture, finance or an agriculture-related field of study.

Eligibility:

  • Scholarship is open to high school seniors, current college students, members of Future Farmers of America.
  • Participants of the Delaware County Farm Festival who have a minimum of one year of Farm Festival Service.
  • Students must have a minimum GPA of 3.0.
  • Priority will be given to those pursuing a degree in any of the following agricultural-related studies:
    • Agribusiness and Applied Economics, Agricultural Communications, Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Systems Management, Agronomy, Animal Sciences, Bio Chemistry, Botany and Plant Pathology, Entomology Food Science, Forestry and Natural Resources, Horticulture, Landscape Architecture, Youth Development and Agricultural Education, Agriculture Information Technology, Agricultural Business Management, Agricultural Sales and Marketing, or any other agricultural related field.

Submit application to:

Delaware County Farm Festival Committee c/o Becky Daugherty
301 N Co Rd 700 E
Selma IN 47383

DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2024

>> Download the the PDF of the Delaware County Farm Festival Ag Scholarship.