Institutions of higher learning across the country have a strong message for today’s prospective students. There are still opportunities for young people to have careers in agriculture—they just need to expand their definition of “agriculture.”
As more and more wind farms and ethanol plants are constructed all across the High Plains, so grows the need for workers to develop, operate and maintain those facilities. Two schools in Kansas have heard the calls from industry and are implementing training and degree programs that will produce graduates to fill these high-paying careers in non-traditional “agricultural” fields.