Agriculture Majors are Far From Useless Demand for Farm-Related Jobs is Ultimate Challenge

摘要

"I believe in the future of agriculture, with a faith born not of words but of deeds—achievements won by the present and past generations of agriculturists; in the promise of better days through better ways, even as the better things we now enjoy have come to us from the struggles of former years. I believe that to live and work on a good farm, or to be engaged in other agricultural pursuits, is pleasant as well as challenging; for I know the joys and discomforts of agricultural life and hold an inborn fondness for those associations which, even in hours of discouragement, I cannot deny." In the almost 30 years that I served as an ag teacher/FFA advisor, I saw those first two paragraphs of the FFA Creed recited or written many times. Anyone who hasbeen in FFA is very familiar with those words. They mean even more to me in todays world. It is really hard for me to understand how anyone could not see the future that is in agriculture, in light of what segment of society in America is not only holding its own but flourishing. It is even harder to digest an article that came out on Yahoo Education website, and virtually became plastered across the Internet and news circles.