Soy Insights Sponsored Content Red River Zoo unveils new, modern agriculture exhibit FARGO, N.D. The Red River Zoo from crops. A farmer's shop area highlights the family legacy of the farm and also shows different careers in agriculture through tools used on the job, including pliers for a farmer, a microscope for a researcher, a drone for an agronomist, a computer for a consultant and a spade for Extension The exhibit has something for al ages, with tables for toddlers to play with tractors and plenty of information Export in Fargo has a bigger, better farming exhibit thanks to work from the North Dakota Corn and Soybean councils and North Dakota State University Soil Health The groups teamed up with the zoo to remodel the children's Zoo Farm into a new, modern agriculture exhibit which was unveiled at Ag Adventure Day at the zoo on July 1. The new exhibit is an interactive, educational space highlighting conservation, crop production, precision agriculture, end-use products, fuels and exports. throughout geared toward adults "They've done a great job retrofitting t," Morken says. "What we're most excited about is that this building is here year round, for all the schools Toddler Tractor Tables-Abbey Wick to be a part of this and remodel all of from, and how things are done to feel like a worm exploring different and groups that come through here. agriculture today, says Joe Morken, time. And so this was just kind of a where parents can snap photos of their About 150,000 people visit the zoo "We just felt that it was a great thing each people about modern today versus grandpa and grandma's soil layers. There is a combine cab, It's here for that continual learning. chairman of the North Dakota Soybean Counci. "Because even though we're in North Dakota and it's a rural state every year no-brainer for the two organizations to take over this building." children harvesting different crops, ethanol and biodiesel pumps for kids and it's smal, it's surprising how The exhibit is designed to teach to il up a car or a pickup, a Plinko many people are still removed from people and especially kids about game to learn about where crops go, the farm and the lack of knowledge modern farming practices. It features and flip panels to learn about food there is for where their food comes a soil climbing wall that allows kids and industrial product production North Dakota Soybean Council