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High school ag programs flourish as farms dwindle

By Jim Suhr
Published May 3, 2014 2:37pm ET
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High school ag programs flourish as farms dwindle
ST. LOUIS (AP) — High school agriculture programs sprouting across the nation’s Corn Belt are teaching teenagers, many of them in urban environments, that careers in the field often have nothing to do with cows and plows. The curriculums, taking hold as school budgets tighten and the numbers of farms in the U.S. decline, are […]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — High school agriculture programs sprouting across the nation’s Corn Belt are teaching teenagers, many of them in urban environments, that careers in the field often have nothing to do with cows and plows.

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