Ag Expo to educate on impact of farming

Hoping to bring more cohesion to Wayne County's agricultural community and to increase awareness about the role it plays throughout the county, members of the 2007 Karl M. Best Leadership Program are looking forward to the first annual Agricultural Expo, which will begin Monday at Wayne Community College.

"It's coming together," said Jennifer Johnson, applied animal science instructor at the college and one of the event's organizers. "I think it's going to be successful."

She explained the 20 members of the leadership program's first class provided the inspiration for the expo.

"Every session we had came down to ways to educate the public about agriculture. If everybody understood a little bit more about agriculture, it would make things a little smoother and easier," she said. "It's not just the farmers working in the fields. It's also agribusinesses.