Ag community celebrates the first day of Spring

Social media full of springtime messages

By Diego Flammini
Assistant Editor, North American Content
Farms.com

It appears farmers have made it through another winter and spring is finally here.

Spring officially arrived around 6:30 a.m. Eastern and members of the ag community filled social media with messages celebrating spring’s arrival by using the hashtags #Plant17 and #FirstDayOfSpring.

Also trending on social media is the hashtag #InternationalDayOfHappiness. And one organization incorporated all of the trending topics into one social media post.

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