10/12/06 Never too young to learn about ag

Tracy Walton is trying to show school children how food gets to their breakfast, lunch and dinner table. During the year Walton opens his Emmett farm to school tours. This time around he has a group of pre-school children who are going to learn a little bit about corn. WALTON "They like to see the crop itself and see how it's grown. The last time we made bread with the wheat." The kids are curious, all eyes and ears. And what's that big thing sitting right next to them. CHILD "It's a tractor." Actually it's a combine but before they climb aboard for a ride with Tracy Walton to watch the corn magically disappear they get a lesson on some of the basics. TEACHER "It chops up all the corn and there's a big window back there and you'll be able to see the corn kernels go in the combine. It only takes just the kernels of corn, it leaves everything else. It leaves all of this, it doesn't pick it up." Walton says he just wants the children to know how much work it takes to grow and harvest their food. The pre-school kids know where this corn is headed. CHILD "For the cows." A day at the farm, for some the first time they've ever been there. For all, a learning experience. Voice of Idaho Agriculture Bill Scott