BRUSHY PRAIRIE, Ind. (AP) - Some Prairie Heights High School students rumbled into the parking lot Tuesday morning, not in hot rods or jalopies, but tractors and farm machinery.
The school held its annual tillage day. Agriculture students were excused from other classes, but spent the day tilling fields, cutting wood and managing the school farm.
Senior Matt Howe pulled into the parking lot first in his field cultivator that only goes 20 mph to 25 mph. He made his second trip to school after bringing seeds the first time around. Considering he lives way in South Milford, the trip was lengthy.
“My Chevy truck’s definitely faster,” he laughed. “This is fun. We bring our family machinery and get lunch at the farm pavilion and we look forward to it. We’ll plant corn and beans as part of ag class and at the Heritage Festival, we show what we plant.”
Sophomore Slade Dunafin walked over and talked to Howe. Dunafin wasn’t on a tractor, but said he probably was going to clean the barn.
“I’ve been looking forward to it. It’s a good time,” Dunafin said.
Cousins Mitch Perkins, sophomore, and Kendall Perkins, freshman, roared into the parking lot on a John Deere chisel plow. They had to travel only about 5 miles.
“It’s fun to work with friends outside school doing what you enjoy,” Mitch said.
Kendall said he would later take turns driving the huge plow.
“I love driving tractors. You feel you own the road,” he said.
Sophomore Josh Perkins pulled up in a backhoe and planned on putting it to work.
“They moved the practice fields. We’ll be working on the trails,” Josh Perkins said.
Their friend, Nick “Fuzz” DeLancey, sophomore, said he figured he’d probably be given the task of mowing.
On another chisel plow, Riley Lewis, senior, was taking part in his final tillage day.
“We look forward to it. We get out of school and it’s fun,” Lewis said. “Driving the tractor to school is always fun.”
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