[QUOTE]Originally posted by mikamom:
Whoa!!! I have little to say about whether or not a student should go to this school or that, but when njbb and others agreed that a farmer is no better off with or without a degree, you hit a nerve!!
I suggest you take a trip to your local dairy, beef, row crop (the vegetables you eat each day), fruit, nut, wheat, corn or other farm. Chances are you will find a person with a bachelors at the least, and perhaps a masters or a Phd in some form of agriculture. Or perhaps it is a business degree.
Ask them where they went to school - Cornell, Purdue, Ohio State, U of MN, U of WI, UC, U of Washington, Iowa, Iowa State, Illinois, Texas, K-State just to name a few.
He or she aslo has on staff or contracts with a nutritionist (animals eat WAY better than most people, and their ration is adjusted to suit their body type and weight), a veterinarian, a pest control advisor, etc etc (and those are the jsut the start of the folks who have the masters and Phd's to even have the start of enough knowledge to do this job.
Then there are people like me, who supply farmers with the "stuff" they need to produce the highest quality, safest food suppply in the world. We have at least bachelors if not masters, Phds and other post - grad work.
I know this is totally off topic, but any chance I get to inform about how complex ag is, how science has impacted it, and how students of it are learning more and more about care for the environment, care for animals, and people and business management, I do it.
Remember, support the American farmer, don't scoff at him or her, they feed you, your family, your town, and your country. Lose the ability to feed ourselves (without buying our food from China) and we lose the last stronghold we have on security. And who knows how that food is grown or what's put on it??
The American farmer that feeds your family is no longer Mr. Greenjeans, more like Dr. Carhart or Wrangler.
Now then, carry on.[/Q
First of all my father and grand father were farmers and I continue to farm the land that has been in the family for 100 years, They were self taught men, you can be educated with out a degree.