PATTON, Pa. (WTAJ) — Eighth graders at Cambria Heights Area Middle School learned about the agricultural lifestyle through a hands-on project from the Cambria County Farm Bureau.

In April, the seventh-grade class planted sweet corn in the fields adjacent to the football stadium. As the summer months passed, the corn stalks grew to produce cobs, which the students would pick to consume.

"Almost everybody is three or four generations removed from a farm," Marty Yahner, president of the Cambria County Farm Bureau, said. "Their grandparents, their great-grandparents had a farm. But now it's so small that people need to know where their food comes from and why farmers do what we do. That's why we have events like this."

Yahner and other members of the bureau spoke to the class about how poll

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