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Farm Animal Days: Connecting Agriculture and Education

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Downtown Raleigh, east of campus.

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a husband and wife work in their greenhouse

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NC State student shows young boy a chick.

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Farm Animal Days: Connecting Agriculture and Education

NC State University's annual Farm Animal Days lets area children experience agriculture up close and hands on with the guidance of CALS experts. Field days are important because agriculture is crucial to the North Carolina economy – and more than two-thirds of that contribution is generated by farm animals.