Farm-City: “200 Years of Alabama Agriculture”

Residents of Phoenix and other Alabama towns rely on rural communities in rural areas to provide food, textiles and forest products for their daily lives. Many workers play an important role in giving these items to people.

The farm council has been committed to educating the residents of the city about how the process from the farm to the table works, and to promote a deeper understanding between farmers and those who purchase goods since 1955 I have educated.

K - 12 students celebrating Farm City Week this week 's Thanksgiving are encouraged to participate in posters, prose and multimedia projects in three farm - themed theme games. In addition, there are Farm City Awards, Farm City Council Competition and Farm Race Farm Competition. The competition was sponsored by Alabama Farm City Council of the classroom Alabama Ag and Alabama Peasant Cooperative.

Last year, the committee sold the Alabama Farm City Calendar in 2018, including works that received student awards. This is the time of the year and new games have already begun. The winner of this year's competition will be posted on the Alabama Farm City Council 2020 Farm City Calendar.

Farm-City held three competitions, poster, essay and multimedia, and in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of the state, the theme of 2018 was "Alabama Agriculture 200 Years". There are two types of poster competition, from kindergarten to 3rd grade and 2nd grade to 4th grade to 6th grade, one from seventh grade to ninth grade and the other from 10th grade to 12th grade. The multimedia competition is open to all students in Alabama state from grade 9 to 12.

In the Farm City Awards that the Farm City Council can apply, entries will be judged in several different detailed areas, such as structure and support, farm tourism reports, program content. The Farmer's City Award recipient will be announced on April 4, 2019 at Birmingham's Farm City Award Luncheon and Program.

The last game was due to the agricultural area where farmers can apply. In order to apply for this competition we will consider participating in the annual Southeast Farmers' conference at Sunbelt Ag Expo. The criteria for farm qualifications are that farmers must provide major farmers' livelihood measures and farmers must endeavor to adopt sustainable and sound management, implement environmental practices, and adopt innovative agriculture and management practices . I need to live on a farm

For rules and formats, please visit the alabamafarmcity.org website. For more information, you can also visit or call the Alabama Cooperative Extension Office. The office of Russell County is at Phoenix (508 14th St) and the telephone number is (334) 298 - 6845. Winners will be notified by March 8, 2019

Poster, paper, multimedia theme of Alabama Farm City in 2018 is "Alabama 200 years agriculture". Since 2017, the 200th Anniversary Committee of Alabama has held many celebrations until the 200th anniversary of the birth of the state. This year's theme of Farm City - "Alabama Agriculture in 200 years" will participate in the 200th anniversary event and will be the appropriate theme of the State Farm City Award Luncheon to be held next April. Alabama was engraved in Mississippi in 1817 and Alabama joined the federal state on December 14, 1819 and became the 22nd state. At that time, agriculture was the lifestyle of most Alabama people, but interdependence relationship between urban and rural areas has already been revealed. In cities that emerge along major waterways, farmers use mobile ports to transport goods from the inland to the global market. In the past 200 years, technology has changed the footprints and urban landscape of Alabama's agriculture

The agricultural industry in Alabama and its part are multifaceted. In Alabama there are over 43,000 farms in 83 million acres of land with an average area of ​​about 206 acres. In fact, agriculture and forestry are the two major industries within the state. The work of one in 4.6 people is related to agriculture in Alabama, which contributes about 70.4 billion dollars to the annual economy of Alabama. The main products of Alabama are poultry, cattle and calves, greenhouse and seedbeds, cotton and soybeans. The state is emerging nationwide, ranked second among broiler, squid, cricket; the third is forest, peanut and lawn, and fifth pecan. Forestry is also an important part of the agricultural sector of the state. Alabama is the second largest area after the third largest timber area in the United States, Georgia and Oregon.