LAS CRUCES – Do you want free leisure, giveaways, tasty meals samples, family-friendly enjoyable and dwell music? In that case, you gained’t wish to miss the 2021 AG Day.
The occasion takes place from 2 to six p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, within the Pan American Middle south car parking zone and the Aggie Memorial Stadium northeast car parking zone. Admission is free. Sept. 25 can 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 recreation at 6 p.m.
AG Day is hosted by the New Mexico Division of Agriculture and New Mexico State College School of Agricultural, Environmental and Client Sciences. New Mexico Beef Council is that this 12 months’s title sponsor. AG Day will characteristic ACES departments’ reveals, dozens of agricultural organizations, companies, non-profits and scholar 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 scholar majoring in agricultural enterprise and aspiring singer. This previous spring, he appeared on the hit actuality tv present “American Idol,” advancing to the second spherical and receiving nationwide recognition and reward. He has a big following of followers on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, the place he’s recognized for his covers of standard nation hits and singing authentic songs.
Along with native musicians, there might be a number of enjoyable for households to get pleasure from at AG Day. Teams such because the NMSU Therapeutic Using Program and the NMSU Animal and Vary Sciences division will present pony and horse rides, together with quite a lot of livestock and livestock that the general public can work together with to study extra about. New Mexico Ag within the Classroom can have a fishing-pond recreation, whereas organizations similar to 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 may also have the possibility to pattern New Mexico merchandise, similar to beef and dairy.
For details about AG Day, go to https://www.nmda.nmsu.edu/ag-day/, e-mail [email protected] or name 575-646-2804.
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