04/02/2026
We were happy to once again host our annual Springtime on the Farm ag day event yesterday at the 4-H Fairgrounds for Spencer County 3rd graders! Over 230 students and staff from Lincoln Trail PTO, Luce Elementary School, Saint Bernard Catholic School, Chrisney Elementary, Nancy Hanks Elementary, Rockport Elementary School, and David Turnham were educated about various aspects of agricultural (crops and their byproducts, animals and livestock (including chickens, sheep, goats and cows), dairy and ice cream production, bees and honey production, tractor/PTO safety, hunter and boater safety, Stop the Bleed, 911 emergency management, and soil conservation.
Special thank you to those who presented: Purdue Extension-Spencer County (Nick Held), Leibering Dimension, Inc. (Phil Leibering), Spencer County Soil & Water Conservation District, Spencer County Sheriff’s Office and Spencer County Emergency Management Agency, Officer Crews from Spencer County DNR, Dave Brenner from Vanderburgh County Farm Bureau, Jim Voges with Anderson Valley Honey, South Spencer High School FFA, HHHS FFA, Jennifer Hill of Hill Family Farm, Kelli Reinke and Michaela of Reinke Farms, Joey Tempel from Tempel Family Livestock, and Logan Leibering of Leibering & Sons Angus Farm. Thank you to Ken Shourds Equipment for lending us your tractor for the demonstration as well.
And thank you to the Spencer County Farm Bureau board members who gave up their time as well to help: David Gogel, Phillip Leibering, Chelsea O'Brien and Kyle Shelton.
Finally, thank you so much to those who sponsored the goodie-bags for students: Farm Credit Mid-America, Farms - Pioneer Sales Representative, Spencer County 4-H Fair, Superior Ag, Indiana Soybean Alliance, Indiana Dairy, Indiana Poultry Association, Indiana Pork, Indiana Farm Bureau, Cody Meyer Indiana Farm Bureau Insurance, and Spencer County, Indiana 4-H Junior Leaders for helping assemble the
