Posted by JD Seller on September 03, 2017 at 10:17:29 from (208.126.196.24):
In Reply to: Value of an ag degree posted by NY 986 on September 03, 2017 at 08:07:11:
NY 986 You stated some of what I tried to get across in a follow up on my original post. IF you are coming of a working farm then an agronomy or animal husbandry degree usually does not teach you much of anything "new". You grew up learning much of the same stuff. Now where you focused on business and accounting you learned things that you would not have on most farms. I am not saying we do not need agronomist or people knowledgeable in animal husbandry but most kids coming off the farm already have a pretty solid base in those areas. So learning things they do not have a base in can be more valuable.
I think too many people go to college without any plan. They just are going because everyone told them they should. They do not have a clear plan to become successful.
I have a degree in business. I did not get it until I was in my fifties. Yes I did learn some things but most of it I had already learned in life. So college may have taught me this earlier in my life but young college grads need to realize that experience can easily equal or surpass any degree they have.
You more that likely are better off because you were NOT farming during the 1980s. You did not have to take the hammering most farmers did then. At least when you got out of school you did not have huge farm debts to drag you down.
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