By WMAY Newsroom
Photo: Kevin Hart/MWF Springfield
The ribbon has been cut on a new $7.5 million agriculture center at Lincoln Land Community College.
Photo: Kevin Hart/MWF Springfield
The building… funded by donations from the Kreher Farm Trust… includes a simulation lab that allows students to train on simulated combines, sprayers, and other equipment before actually venturing out in those actual vehicles.
Photo: Kevin Hart/MWF Springfield
It also has space where animal pens can be set up or small machinery can be brought in for class activities.
Photo: Kevin Hart/MWF Springfield
Lincoln Land officials say the new building will attract even more students to the college’s growing agriculture education program.