In “Beefing Up STEM 2016,” Denise Johnson, director of the Hollingsworth Science Center, Houston Independent School District, blogs about the positive experience she had attending the “On the Farm STEM Experience” provided by the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture and funded by the Beef Checkoff Program in January.
 
“American farmers in many ways have surpassed most fields in their use and application of STEM,” Johnson wrote. Further, the experience “broadened my point of view and appreciation of the American farmer.”