Sutherlin FFA

Why do today’s youth not understand agriculture? In past years youth have been raised to strive and on farming and have the hope in their heart that they would be the boy chosen to inherit the family farm and girls would marry a man with a well obtained piece of land. This has drastically changed in the past 100 years. As a nation we have begun to rely more on imports of foodstuffs and the majority of our profits have come from technology and you hear the term “white collar” more often now than “blue collar”.