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Kamwind t1_iv4xd7r wrote

Reply to comment by Different-Mud-5926 in Tiny school's wheat crop harvest 'better than a cake sale', set to raise $50k by Real_Carl_Ramirez

You grow up working on a farm and you quickly learn you better keep your grades up so you can have a different life then that.

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IAFarmLife t1_iv51kr8 wrote

It takes some pretty good grades to be successful at farming today.

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MrMycroft t1_iv5a89h wrote

It does. Virginia Tech, where I got my Forestry degree, offers a whole range of Ag degrees. Then there are also people who go into Ag related law, research, economics, buisness. Farmers can be the nicest people in the world, but the buisness is cutthroat, and the dumb do not survive.

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