Smithville High School Agriculture Instructor Stephen Heppe explains how students in his class dealt with a pest problem after the agriculture program opened its greenhouse and received its first shipment of poinsettias. Helping him and the students was Frank Becker (second to left), who at the time was the integrated pest management coordinator for OSU Extension, Wayne County office. Becker is now the office’s agriculture and natural resources educator and is sharing his expertise with the school’s agriculture program as a guest lecturer. Students pictured are Audrey Sidle and Ben Rhodes.
When Smithville High School’s agriculture education program built a
