AMERICA'S HUSBANDRY
Agriculture has always been my blood. Ofcourse
growing up a farmer's daughter wasn't the desired
choice of most adolescent and preadulthood girls. I
was typical; always having a goal in sight that
was shared by every other female my age..that was to
be rich, to excel in every form of education, to be the most
unique, highest paid, most intellegent female.
In all of these materialized goals and society-embraced
dreams a few details were neglected. I lost sight
of what I wanted, what I found of interest, and what was
important to me.
I was a late bloomer to an introduction to FFA. Advised
by single-minded school counselors that for my 'standing' agriculture
was a waste of time. That I could be anything THEY wanted..a lawyer, doctor, President/CEO, because
I had the book sense that school officials like to see.
I wasn't happy and it wasn't me. So you see I steered myself for most of
my developing years away from my farm upbringing, denied my
roots, and sought what everyone of those other's chose
for me. Until I was introduced into the FFA and found
the one thing that meant something to me, that I could feel
whole within, that I understood, and that was Agriculture.
And that folks is how today I'm in my third year of college
in Agriculture Science and intending to expand the ever
declining and overlooked field of employment. I can say
that people smile and snicker still today when I mention proudly
my course of study, they'll have their "what in the world
do you intend to do with that," replies but I know that this world,
this country, this race of humanity was derived from
Agriculture, and we shall perish at it's end.
FFA you see is what made me revamp my thinking. It
made me see that book sense will only get you a limited
way. That the nature and land is where I wanted to be.
And with involvement and speaking out those dying
American Farmers everyone feels sorry for, may be rejuvinated
by the youth of today if only interest would be made. It
all starts with a little bit of teamwork and 'learning to do'
to make a change for the better in a few misguided farmkids
like me.
AGRICULTURE/FFA LINKS
NATIONAL FFA
KENTUCKY FFA
KENTUCKY AG INFO
KENTUCKY AG WEBSITES
KENTUCKY BEEF HOMEPAGE
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
KENTUCKY FARM BUREAU
KENTUCKY CATTLEMEN'S ASSOCIATION
SOUTHERN STATES
PFIZER COMPANY
PRO FARMER ONLINE
UNIV.OF NEBRASKA AG PUBLICATIONS
AGRICULTURE ONLINE
FARMComm
LORENZO MFG CO INC.
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