Elk Mound student is Ag in the Classroom essay winner

ELK MOUND – Issie Hollister, a fourth grade student from Elk Mound, is the Dunn County winner of the Agriculture in the Classroom essay contest.  Wisconsin fourth and fifth graders were asked to write a 100 to 300 word essay with the theme, “Wisconsin gardens provide many food choices for us.”

Issie is the daughter of Rick and Jodi Hollister.  Chris Hahn is her fourth grade teacher at Mound View Elementary School in Elk Mound.

A total of 1,996 Wisconsin students wrote essays for the competition sponsored by the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Foundation, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Frontier FS and WE Energies.

Farm Bureau’s Ag in the Classroom program provides teachers and K-12 students with an understanding of how their food is produced.  The program seeks to work within existing curricula to provide basic information on our nation’s largest industry:  Agriculture.  Wisconsin’s Ag in the Classroom program is carried out by a network of local educators, volunteers and representatives from agricultural organizations and businesses.  The goal of the program is to help students gain a greater awareness of the role of agriculture in the economy and society, so that they may become citizens who support wise agricultural policies.