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AG program breeds responsibility in students

by | Feb 9, 2017 | Latest

Sierra Baker and her goat during the recent Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo.

 

By Greg Ford

Staff Writer

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The agricultural world is much more than the bucolic portrayals one views in movies and on television.

It’s a daily grind of hard and repetitive work in what is essentially a business that centers on the growing of and caring for plants and animals. That is the message of the two-year-old Future Farmers of America program at Sachse High School, in which students from a predominantly urban setting get on-hands experience in what it’s like to be a 21st century farmer.

For the full story see the Feb. 9 issue and the e-Edition at https://www.etypeservices.com/Sachse%20NewsID248/default.aspx

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