I was active in FFA all four years in high school, and an officer in my senior year. This in a strong agricultural community where probably half of the students were farm kids.
That being said, about 20 years after we graduated, one of my classmates and fellow FFA members created quite a commotion in a letter to the editor of our local newspaper when he proposed schools scrap Voc Ag and FFA and focus on business administration instead.
His point was that kids who grow up on a farm and go on to farm as adults will develop all the farm skills they need in the process of growing up. What they need in addition to farming skills is business acumen and skills. He is now deceased, but was a farmer and a partner in a family feedlot operation at the time he wrote the letter.
Looking back on my life as a Bus Ad major in college who once farmed for 9 years, I gotta agree with him.
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