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[Warren Allison]

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My husband and I are proud to be a US cattle producers. Hanging in there the best we can and loving the ride. It was a big decision when we first when in debt to increase our herd size, but worth it....

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[gman4691]

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My husband and I are proud to be a US cattle producers. Hanging in there the best we can and loving the ride. It was a big decision when we first when in debt to increase our herd size, but worth it....

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FFA & 4H need to make a bigger push in some of the smaller schools...

 

[Ouachita]

FFA & 4H need to make a bigger push in some of the smaller schools...

Yep, they need to be having more of them field trips to the farm where me and a friend sneak off behind a barn, and uncover a covered up moonshine still

 

[gman4691]

Yep, they need to be having more of them field trips to the farm where me and a friend sneak off behind a barn, and uncover a covered up moonshine still

Or field trips with their Ag teacher where we castrate a pig...I went on one of those...me and buddy castrated his pig while the rest were afraid too get into the pen...lol...true story

 

[greybeard]

Or field trips with their Ag teacher where we castrate a pig...I went on one of those...me and buddy castrated his pig while the rest were afraid too get into the pen...lol...true story

One of our FFA Ag class 'field trips' involved a big pen of weaned pigs that needed vaccinated and our job was to catch them, pick 'em up by their rear legs and hold them over the pipe fence for the vet to stick. We wuz dirty, wet, and had pig crap all over us and stunk just like a pig when we got back to school for end of last period ag class. A 'difficult' ride home on the crowded school bus that day... and momma made me hose off outside when I got home.

We did a lot of other field trip work, like barbed wire fence work, some calf castration (knife and burdizzo...remember, this was the 1960s) learned out on a farm about running a small PTO driven feedmill, used a freeze brander for the 1st time in my life, built/welded new pipe stalls at the livestock fair grounds and a bunch of other stuff I've forgotten.

 

[greybeard]

FFA & 4H need to make a bigger push in some of the smaller schools...

They are, BUT, not always in the traditional way we were used to seeing.

 

[Travlr]

They are, BUT, not always in the traditional way we were used to seeing.

The vegan attitude is infecting schools...

 

[Brute 23]

It has nothing to do with education, it's the $$$. AG has become a wealthy man's game.

Programs like the FFA have had massive expansion in the inner cities but teaching about going out and starting a farm or ranch from scratch is not really applicable.

 

[jltrent]

Educate the team as I remember

Football Coach Has a Bull Castrated in Front of His Team

https://www.chronicle.com/article/football-coach-has-a-bull-castrated-in-front-of-his-team/

 

[BFE]

It has nothing to do with education, it's the $$$. AG has become a wealthy man's game.

Programs like the FFA have had massive expansion in the inner cities but teaching about going out and starting a farm or ranch from scratch is not really applicable.

True. Don't like it but momma says it be's that way sometimes.

 

[gman4691]

Maybe it's time for a new organization(?)