Weber County Farm Bureau to hold third annual Baby Farm Animal Day
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- Weber County Farm Bureau’s third annual Baby Farm Animal Day will be held in West Haven on Saturday, April 12, 2025.
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- Weber County Farm Bureau’s third annual Baby Farm Animal Day will be held in West Haven on Saturday, April 12, 2025.
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- Weber County Farm Bureau’s third annual Baby Farm Animal Day will be held in West Haven on Saturday, April 12, 2025.
WEST HAVEN — The local Farm Bureau chapter will bring live farm animals, educational opportunities and family activities to the community next month.
Weber County Farm Bureau’s third annual Baby Farm Animal Day is set for April 12 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at West Haven Country Park, located at 2850 W. 3300 South.
Ashlie Wayment — the county Farm Bureau’s promotion and engagement chair — said farmers and ranchers from across the county will showcase a variety of animals at the event.
“We have local dairy calves, bunnies, goats, chickens, mini-donkeys, ponies, yaks and llamas, and they’re all from Weber County,” Wayment told the Standard-Examiner.
In lieu of vendors, the event will feature educational booths, National FFA Organization chapters from area high schools, a combine tractor and more. Food trucks, including the Rocky Mountain Burger Bus, S’Mothered, Marquesas Corndogs, Donut Kabobs, Pad Thai Food Truck and others, will also be on hand.
“Everything is free except for the food trucks,” Wayment said. “We have someone talking about their crops and planting and helping kids plant a seed. We have a beekeeper that’s coming to talk about beekeeping and how it’s important to everyday life and how important it is to farmers and ranchers with their crops. Then we have a drone that’s coming that sprays crops for farmers…. We have little kids activities that they can do.”
Wayment hopes to see 6,000 to 8,000 attendees.
Weber County Farm Bureau President Bren Edwards said the bureau is a grassroots organization advocating for agriculture and farmers. However, he said that education and events like Baby Farm Animal Day are an important part of its mission.
“One of the big things that we as Weber County Farm Bureau focus on is just getting the message out there, education — trying to teach people where their food comes from, that there still are farms and a lot of agriculture in Weber County,” Edwards told the Standard-Examiner.
To that end, the county Farm Bureau awarded on Saturday six scholarships ranging from $500 to $1,500 to students seeking agriculture-related degrees. Edwards cited the Davis Technical College diesel program as an applicable field of study.
Edwards said that beyond bringing farmers and ranchers, their livestock and scholarships to the community, the county Farm Bureau is seeking new members as well as participants in its Young Farmers and Ranchers, or YF&R, program.
The YF&R program aims to “engage and recognize young farmers and ranchers who are passionate about agriculture” in order to “develop a network of leaders” contributing to the future of agriculture and the organization, according to the Utah Farm Bureau website.
For more information about the YF&R program and Farm Bureau membership in general, go to https://www.utahfarmbureau.org/.
