Alongside many others throughout agriculture, Oklahoma Pork staff visited classrooms in their home communities this week to teach children about pigs, pork, and the great people who work to produce our food supply.

Oklahomans across the state committed to telling fact-based agricultural stories with hundreds of students in a fun and helpful way this week. The Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry (ODAFF)'s Agriculture in the Classroom program held its annual "Read An Accurate Agriculture Book Week" to encourage more transparency about food and farming to young people.

Many teachers pledged to read an educational agriculture story in their own classrooms, and dozens of volunteers in counties throughout Oklahoma went into schools and early childhood centers to help promote agriculture's message. This year marked the most fun "Read an Accurate Agriculture Book Week" yet for the Oklahoma Pork Council since many guest readers chose to share "It Takes a Team!" written by Oklahoma Pork's Matti Carlile with photography and design by Oklahoma Pork's Shay Stegmann.

As the author of this educational story focused on commercial pork production, Matti was part of the official Agriculture in the Classroom "Zoom readers" line-up alongside VIPs like OSU baseball coach Josh Holliday and Oklahoma House Agriculture Committee Chairman Dell Kerbs. Thanks to this special virtual reading opportunity, Matti got to connect classrooms around the state with a modern sow farm and the people who work there each day.