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A friend of mine from high school that was a farm kid did it, and said he learned a lot about the 'why' behind what they were doing, so that let him do thing differently that improved production, as well as improve on some of the logistics/business side of things so he saved money there. And some thing that they had always done he stopped doing, and did it a different way, so a lot of benefits.Not really. The two year program is an incredible hands on diploma
And I'm sure no offense meant, but you should spent a couple of hours listening to farm radio show to appreciate the complexity of the career and life. Farm kids hitting Ridgetown is in no way credential driven.
Lot to be said for generational learning but not wrong either with pooling that and adding some science/business in a school setting. It's a lot easier to learn about contracting and accounting in a class then on a spreadsheet.
There is also a lot of improvements and new techniques and innovations; saw something where there is an industrial sized roomba thing in a dairy barn going around constantly cleaning up, and they'd also automated the logging of the different cows milk production and some other things to make life easier.
Having said all that, when the farmers are barely scraping by or losing money, and can turn around and sell their land for a mint no real wonder that a lot of people are doing something different.
In that vein, wish we still had things like the super stoker program; the setup at Munn was amazing, and that way they were bringing in a lot of things from the marine world for best practices and new tech for awareness.