The Importance Of Agriscience Education

Agriscience education has grown tremendously in the past few years, let alone few hundred. I knew that I had knowledge of the topic, growing up on a farm and being in FFA, but college has really helped expand my understanding. My attitude has always been positive, and continues to be so, but is now more aware of the diversity in agriscience education. My beliefs have only developed, just as agriculture has. Overall, I am so excited to see how the next few years will mature my knowledge, attitude, and beliefs about agriscience education.

Knowledge is obviously a large part of agriscience education, because that is essentially the career—to extend knowledge about agriculturally related topics to inform and mold the leaders of tomorrow. As a child growing up on a mainly grain farm with a few livestock, my father was always sure to include my siblings and I in his daily tasks, which made me knowledgeable about grain farming and

I used to naïvely believe that agriscience education was important to the betterment of society, but now I know that it is absolutely essential. I now know that it is imperative for young people to know the skills that I plainly took for granted and just thought that it was common knowledge due to my background on a farm. My favorite quote is by Joe Martin and although it focuses on The National FFA Organization, I believe that it perfectly encompasses the industry as a whole. It reads, “The organization has grown to be more than cows, sows and plows; the modern FFA is about beakers, speakers and job seekers.” Through this quote, we see how far agriculture has come since the turn of the century, which means that agriscience education has had to come just as far. Not only are teachers teaching young people about animals, plants, and structural mechanics, but they are teaching about job searches, integrity, and how to be the leaders of the