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Beth Schaefer
Beth Schaefer is the Wisconsin Agriculture in the Classroom Coordinator at Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation.
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Sep 30, 2026
The View on Agriculture in the Classroom with Beth Schaefer
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Amy EkelbergHOST
Do you want to just give an overview of what that contest is and like how maybe a little bit of history, too, of how it's kind of changed and tweaked a little bit through the years?
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7:49Beth SchaeferGUEST
Yeah, so we just celebrated our 30th anniversary of hosting the essay contest, which I was kind of blown away by because when I was younger, I don't remember the contest, but I remember Ag in the Classroom being around.
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8:02Beth SchaeferGUEST
But the essay contest actually started with the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Women's Committee back in 1996, 1995, 97, somewhere in that ballpark.
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8:12Beth SchaeferGUEST
And they hosted it in honor of National Ag Day, which is typically like, what, the second Tuesday of March, third Tuesday of March.
24 MINS LATER

Amy EkelbergHOST
How can I go into a classroom and talk about apples? Like, how do you empower people to do that?