The school’s Future Farmers of America (FFA) chapter organized the machinery parade, which included a Minneapolis-Moline G900 and John Deere 7810. The route started at the local Farm Bureau office while a police escort ensured traffic cooperated to allow the tractors to travel safely on route to the school.
Students welcomed the opportunity to bring a piece of farm life to school to share with their classmates.
“What’s not cool about driving a tractor to school?” Jack Rodgers, an 11th-grade student who drove the Minneapolis-Moline G900, told the Lynchburg News and Advance on Monday.
The event is also a way to bring students together to talk about farming.
Nelson County High School has an enrollment of 640 students, some of whom may not be from farms.
A lineup of tractors in the school’s parking lot “brings awareness to agriculture education,” Sarah Harvey, vice-president of the school’s FFA, told the Lynchburg News and Advance.
The community was pleased to see such a unique event.
“Good old Nelson County,” Phyllis Morris posted on ABC 13’s Facebook page. “I grew up there and there is no other place like it. It had to be a special treat for these kids. Yahoo to them.”
Farms.com has reached out to the local FFA and Farm Bureau for comment.
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