Jones Agriculture Program

Jones students in the third through twelfth grades learn life skills and responsibility through the Academy’s hog program. Dozens of Jones students become a part of their animals’ lives.

Each student – depending on age - is assigned one to three pigs and is responsible for their care before school, after school and, at night, if needed.

Students feed, exercise, brush, clean pens – and then show their pigs in livestock competitions at local, state and national levels.

For more than a decade Jones students have won numerous awards including Grand Champion Market Barrow at the 2006 Oklahoma Youth Expo in Oklahoma City and Grand Champion Market Hog at the 2003 and 2006 Arkansas/Oklahoma State Fairs in Fort Smith.

“I tell our kids we are a team like any other team,” says Brandon Spears, Jones Academy Agricultural Supervisor. “We work together, we lose together and we win together.”