RE: formally educated farmers...
Hayes, Jim W. (HayesJW@cobleskill.edu)
Mon, 8 Feb 1999 16:35:12 -0500
Greg,
There is a big difference between education and trainning. If you choose
to utilize only your trainning you must stay within "The Box". If you choose
to utilize your training simply as a tool to facilitate your education the
box will never exist.
Jim Hayes
Animal Sci Dept.
SUNY
Cobleskill NY
> ----------
> From: Greg & Lei Gunthorp[SMTP:hey4hogs@kuntrynet.com]
> Sent: Sunday, February 07, 1999 9:07AM
> To: hayesjw@cobleskill.edu
> Cc: sanet-mg@ces.ncsu.edu
> Subject: Re: formally educated farmers...
>
> 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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