 The 5th annual Georgia Ag Awareness Day event took place today at the Georgia Freight Depot in downtown Atlanta. A cross section of folks attended the event including state legislators, FFA and 4-H youth, and of course a variety of commodity groups and others involved in agriculture across the state. Governor Sonny Perdue (pictured right) gave an opening speech hi-lighting the many benefits of agriculture to the state.  
You can hear part of the Governor’s speech. 
Report (4:20 mp3)
 Pictured right are Julie McPeake and Jim Collins
 with the Georgia Beef Board preparing delicous beef samples for those in attendance, while Karen Nikitopoulos (pictured left) with the Georgia Cotton Commission was on hand with brownies that were made with cottonseed oil to show how that commodity is both food and fiber which many people were not aware of.