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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Today's Featured Article - Show Coverage: Argyle and Mt. Pleasant Labor Day Weekend Shows - by Cindy Ladage. The last fling before summer fades into fall and we get busy in the fields are the annual Labor Day tractor shows. Beginning on September 5th and running through the 7th, the Argyle Antique Gas and Engine Show is held at the Argyle State Park. Located in West Central Illinois, the pine forest was the setting for the opening of the 22nd show. This year we decided to try to sell a few tractor parts, literature and wrenches to offset my husband's buying sprees. Saturday
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