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<blockquote data-quote="Ky hills" data-source="post: 1818348" data-attributes="member: 24816"><p>When I was young our county had one county agent and a secretary headquartered at an office in the basement of the courthouse. </p><p>Some years later they built a new building on the outskirts of town, and now have several agents and all kinds of meetings and functions at the building.</p><p>A lot of it is either 4H, or stuff to do pertaining to various "apparently ag related community programs" which they have an agent for that.</p><p>The trend seems to be hiring young agents that invariably don't stay in any location very long. </p><p>For quite a while our years back our agent was one of my retired ag teachers.</p><p>When he retired from the county agent position he was replaced by a young guy that was more into horticulture than animal agriculture. I always thought that was a wrong move, but then after a few years they gave him the title of horticulture agent and hired another ag agent that I kind of knew through being friends with some of his family in another county. He was actually raised in a farm and had cattle.</p><p>Now both of those agents are gone to other locations and I haven't met the new one.</p><p>Unfortunately, a lot the folks in those jobs only have practical experience with livestock or crops through their college, and the college farms are different in some ways than those of actual working farms.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ky hills, post: 1818348, member: 24816"] When I was young our county had one county agent and a secretary headquartered at an office in the basement of the courthouse. Some years later they built a new building on the outskirts of town, and now have several agents and all kinds of meetings and functions at the building. A lot of it is either 4H, or stuff to do pertaining to various “apparently ag related community programs” which they have an agent for that. The trend seems to be hiring young agents that invariably don’t stay in any location very long. For quite a while our years back our agent was one of my retired ag teachers. When he retired from the county agent position he was replaced by a young guy that was more into horticulture than animal agriculture. I always thought that was a wrong move, but then after a few years they gave him the title of horticulture agent and hired another ag agent that I kind of knew through being friends with some of his family in another county. He was actually raised in a farm and had cattle. Now both of those agents are gone to other locations and I haven’t met the new one. Unfortunately, a lot the folks in those jobs only have practical experience with livestock or crops through their college, and the college farms are different in some ways than those of actual working farms. [/QUOTE]
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