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Porter County Farm Bureau President Bob Wichlinski sent out a tractor beam and harvested a crop of agricultural educators planning to revive Ag Day after years of dormancy.

“We haven’t had an Ag Day for years in Porter County,” he said Friday during an AgEd summit at the Porter County Administration Building, and he wants to restart it.

Wichlinski gathered people representing a diverse group of organizations involved in ag education, including the Porter County Soil and Water Conservation District, the county’s only ag teacher, Shirley Heinze Land Trust, Purdue Extension, Porter County Agricultural Society and Keystone Cooperative.

“Agriculture, we can’t live without it,” Wichlinski said.

The Agriculture Council of America is the principal

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