Ask first
The learner answers before the explanation. True, false, or not sure — the point is to surface what they think now.
Ag Dirt Busters turns common myths and questions into short, interactive learning experiences grounded in producer perspective, clear explanations, and sources people can check for themselves.

The experience begins with a question, gives the learner something to do, and ends with an answer they can explain to someone else.
The learner answers before the explanation. True, false, or not sure — the point is to surface what they think now.
A simple interaction helps move the learner from a claim they have heard to what actually happens in agriculture.
The learner finishes with a clear explanation, a final check, and sources so the answer can travel beyond the screen.
It is approachable, memorable, and gives people a low-stakes way to practice asking questions about where food comes from.
Ag Dirt Busters is being designed for flexible use across public engagement, education, and member outreach.
A browser-based experience that can run on a kiosk or shared device and reset for the next learner.
Turn common audience questions into a repeatable learning experience grounded in real agricultural context.
Give learners a short, guided way to question what they have heard and leave with language they can use.
Use the same underlying learning pattern for employees, partners, volunteers, or audiences who need agricultural context.
For event and organizational use, anonymous interaction data can help show participation, answer patterns, completion, and engagement with sources or follow-up actions.
That means the conversation can produce something more useful than a booth traffic estimate — while keeping the learner experience simple.
Ag Dirt Busters can be used as a ready-to-go learning experience or developed around a question your organization wants to address. Packages can be scoped to the audience, setting, and level of customization you need.
Use an existing experience at a fair, expo, open house, conference, or community event.
Use a published experience with a group that needs a guided conversation about agriculture.
Develop a new Dirt Buster around a specific myth, misconception, or agricultural topic.
Partner on an existing or new Dirt Buster and help make credible agricultural learning available to a wider audience.
Ag Dirt Busters is built around clear explanations, producer experience, and source material that learners can review for themselves.
The goal is not to win an argument. It is to give someone enough context to reconsider a claim and enough language to keep the conversation going.
Ag Dirt Busters also collects the questions, claims, and “I heard that…” moments people encounter in the real world.
Tell us about your audience, setting, and the questions you want to address. We can explore the right way to use Ag Dirt Busters for your event, organization, classroom, training, or sponsorship opportunity.
Whether you want to bring an existing Dirt Buster to an audience or explore a new topic, the best place to start is a quick conversation.