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Animal agriculture information plus free hamburgers and hot dogs will be featured during the annual Fort Hays State University Agriculture Department’s Beef Day Thursday, April 28.

The event is free to the public from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the FHSU Quad.

Beef Production students will host informational displays and face off with their favorite recipes using hamburger. Attendees will get to sample the foods and vote for their favorite. Other booths will feature brisket and other beef dishes.

The Collegiate Farm Bureau will present the Ag In Motion trailer. Other exhibitions include water sheds, water quality demonstrations and the FHSU farm.

District Administrator of the Kansas Farm Bureau, Dr. Paige Pratt, will speak to the crowd during the event. Pratt is co-owner of Johnson farms, LLC, in Dwight, Kansas, with lifelong involvement in farming, stocker cattle and commercial and seedstock cow/calf operations.

Beef Day is sponsored by the Kansas Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture.

For more information contact Dr. Brittany Howell, FHSU Associate Professor of Agriculture, at (785) 628-4015 or [email protected].