LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Do you want free leisure, giveaways, tasty meals samples, family-friendly enjoyable and dwell music? In that case, you received’t need to miss the 2021 AG Day.
The occasion takes place Saturday, Sept. 25 from 2 to six p.m. within the Pan American Heart south parking zone and the Aggie Memorial Stadium northeast parking zone. Admission is free. Sept. 25 can also be NMSU’s Homecoming celebration, with the “Aggies are again in motion” theme. The homecoming parade begins at 10 a.m., and the day culminates with the NMSU vs. Hawaii soccer sport at 6 p.m.
AG Day is hosted by the New Mexico Division of Agriculture and New Mexico State College (NMSU) School of Agricultural, Environmental and Shopper Sciences (ACES). New Mexico Beef Council is that this 12 months’s title sponsor. AG Day will characteristic ACES departments’ displays, dozens of agricultural organizations, companies, non-profits and pupil organizations.
The NMSU Alumni Affiliation and AG Day organizers have joined forces to offer dwell leisure. Las Cruces musician and American Idol contestant Dzaki Sukarno kicks off this 12 months’s occasion at 2 p.m. Native artist LC DJ takes the stage from 4 to six p.m.
Sukarno is a 20-year-old NMSU pupil majoring in agricultural enterprise. He has been singing, enjoying the guitar and training music practically his whole life. This previous spring, he earned the chance to look on the hit actuality tv present “American Idol,” advancing to the second spherical and receiving nationwide recognition and reward for his skills within the competitors. He has a big following of followers on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, the place he’s recognized for his covers of in style nation hits and singing unique songs.
Along with native musicians, there might be a lot of enjoyable for households to get pleasure from at AG Day. Teams such because the NMSU Therapeutic Driving Program and the NMSU Animal and Vary Sciences division will present pony and horse rides, together with quite a lot of cattle and livestock that the general public can work together with to be taught extra about. New Mexico Ag within the Classroom may have a fishing-pond sport, whereas organizations reminiscent of New Mexico 4-H, NMSU Cooperative Extension Service and the New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum will assist educate the general public about how agriculture is built-in into their communities and on a regular basis lives. Attendees can even have the prospect to pattern New Mexico merchandise, reminiscent of beef and dairy.
For extra details about AG Day, go to https://www.nmda.nmsu.edu/ag-day/, e-mail [email protected] or name 575-646-2804.