University agriculture school grows in new areas

Alex Friedrich:

When many people picture the typical agriculture student at the University of Minnesota, chances are they'd think of a rural farm boy.

For a long time they would have been on target. Many students probably arrived as a freshman to learn agronomy, soil or animal science and planned to return to the family farm or go to work for a big agricultural company.

That's no longer true. Professors are seeing a different kind of agricultural student on the Twin Cities campus.

"It's a woman who grew up in suburban Twin Cities, and is a transfer student from some place in MnSCU," said Jay Bell, associate dean the U of M's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 20, 2012 1:33 AM
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