TINA L. SCOTT
EDITOR
Shelby Yates, a fifth grader at Washington Elementary School in Merrill, is the District 8 winner in the statewide Wisconsin Ag in the Classroom Essay Contest.
This annual contest focuses on food and agriculture and is open to fourth- and fifth-grade students across the state. This year students were asked to write a 100- to 300-word essay with the theme, “How have Wisconsin soybean farmers fueled Wisconsin’s economy?”
Statewide, this year 1,461 students wrote essays for the contest, which was sponsored by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation, Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Association, Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board, and We Energies.
As one of the nine District winners, Shelby received a prize package that included a plaque, books about soybeans, a Culver’s gift card, an Agriculture Fast Match game, Trivia cards, and an “I Love Soybean” mug.