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MrMycroft t1_iv59psk wrote

Posters here didn't grow up rural, and it shows. Many HS local to me have farming/ranching, and even basic forestry classes. Those professions are the lifeblood of the local communities.

Those students weren't just working a field, they were learning about calculating land expectation value, current industry practices and potential future ones, marketing, growth and yield equations, etc. The smartest kids probably use it as a springboard into other Ag fields, ranging from law to research.

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jrd5432 t1_iv5ja93 wrote

Correction: these professions are the lifeblood of our entire society.

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CernelDS t1_iv5wr6t wrote

People forget because of industrialization but yeah.

And before industrialization? You needed 8 to 9 people working the fields for each person that didn't. It's why cities were so small.

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IkeDaddyDeluxe t1_iv65e2v wrote

I went to a rural school and we had a bumper ag program and a crop field for both education and funds. Sadly, ag and sports is all they care about. They stripped the tech programs until they didn't exist and haven't increased teacher salaries in many years. Their math and (non ag related) science classes were always understaffed and funded. Now, they are being hit with a wave of teachers quitting because they only cared about sports and ag programs. It's a damn shame because I love agriculture but the old guard that rules the school board are stuck in the past.

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