Re: formally educated farmers...

Greg & Lei Gunthorp (hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com)
Sun, 7 Feb 1999 09:07:01 -0500

I've got a degree in ag economics and do not consider myself a conventional
farmer. I also know an organic grain farmer in the same county as me that
also has a degree in ag econ. By and large though, I think your
assessments that the university trained farmers took the story hook, line,
and sinker is pretty fair. The people that can still think openly and
outside the box, whether they have a college ag education or not, are the
sustainable farmers around here.
Best wishes,
Greg
Gunthorp's Pasture-ized Pork
LaGrange, Indiana
visit our farm at www.grassfarmer.com

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> From: Dan Hook <guldann@ix.netcom.com>
> To: Anita Graf (Staff) <agraf@agecon.uga.edu>; sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: formally educated farmers...
> Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 12:47 AM
>
>
> Three farmers: Two BS in Biology, one Masters in Health Education, and
one
> BS in Physical Therapy. One raised on our farm when it was a dairy farm,
> basically ran the farm the last few years till his father retired.
> ("Conventional dairy" which by virtue of time fram 40s-70s not as
> "conventional" as now :) they just hadn't invented all those shots). Beth
> By the way, thank you to those of you who understood very well what I
> was asking and gave me your intersting stories. So far, it would
> seem that organic farms are being run by all manner of liberal
> arts-types and I can only suppose that the graduates of ag school are
> farming conventionally.
>
>
> Anita Graf
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