Middle and high school students participated in hands-on activities designed to show the connection between agriculture and STEM fields.
Nearly 600 middle and high school students from around the state flocked to the National Peanut Festival Fairgrounds on Tuesday for the second annual AgriSTEM Expo hosted by the Troy University chapter of Alabama Technology in Motion (ATIM).
Dr. Charisse Snell, TROY ATIM specialist and the event’s coordinator, said the goal of the expo is to show…
Dr. Marty Olliff's monthly series turns its attention to a Wiregrass farmer demonstrating how tools were once made.
Modern hand tools’ handles are made on an industrial scale, often in small factories by machines running for hours at a time. This means they’re relatively inexpensive, readily available and easily replaceable (because the tool-making industry has created size standards).
But not long ago, when farm folks in particular had more time than cash, tool…