Ag Career Days is a farm career-exploration experience for all seventh- and eighth-grade students from five Northeast Wisconsin school districts. It’ll be Tuesday and Wednesday at Ebert Enterprises dairy farm in Algoma.
Presented by the Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation, the free event will draw roughly 900 students from the Algoma, Denmark, Kewaunee, Luxemburg-Casco, and Southern Door school districts. Parochial and home-schooled students also participate.
Ag Career Days will highlight a cross-section of potential career areas. The middle-school students will rotate through eight stations, each having a different presenter who works in some aspect of the agriculture industry.
The topics include: agronomy, cropping, horticulture, animals, animal nutrition, milk testing, cheese making, agriculture support services, the business of agriculture, and technology.
The participating students will receive hands-on opportunities to learn more about the various aspects of agriculture, allowing them to tailor their high-school coursework towards a planned career path.
The Kewaunee County Economic Development Corporation launched Ag Career Days in 2012 as a way for students to identify how their interests could transfer to a potential career in the agriculture industry. Established as a biennial event, it subsequently was held in 2014, 2016 and 2018, becoming recognized as one of Wisconsin’s largest farm career-exploration gatherings. After a pause during the pandemic, the event made a successful return in 2023.
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