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⌈ Secret Post #2074 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

The thing is, with the Masters I'm doing all the classes are pretty much core subjects I have to do. They cover a whole bunch of basics - then I can choose 6 others I want to do and the one major project. So it's not the most specific of Masters, except that it's a Masters of farming so I guess it's pretty specific.

But I'm just not sure what I want to do entirely yet. I'm totally cool with interning and working anywhere.

[khronos_keeper]

Wait what. A masters in farming? What, that exists? I'm sorry, as a farmer/farm kid myself this is... kind of baffling? Like I mean it's super helpful to know you need to maintain a cow's complex digestive system by giving them yeast and sodium bicarb and not let them yarf down a fuckload of grain, but.... like that's something I knew all by myself from experience. Are you willing to like... go work on some actual farms?

Because almost guaranteed you could pick up the same stuff actually working there, as spending tens of thousands of dollars in classes trying to learn it.

Unless you're talking about veterinary sciences, which is a whole other ballgame.

But I'm seriously intrigued, what is the kind of stuff they'd be teaching you? Fuck, I'm almost tempted to ask if you'd be willing to work on MY farm. God knows my parents need the help.

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt, but where do you live, that the idea of graduate programs in agronomy or animal science sounds so strange? In the US, there are land-grant universities--originally founded as "Colleges of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts"--all over the country. Like these:

http://www.agron.iastate.edu/academic/graduate/prostudents.aspx

http://www.ans.iastate.edu/stud/grad/index.php

Typically, the students do come from farm backgrounds, and there are plenty of places they can go to get farm experience if they don't have it already.

[khronos_keeper]

Oh definitely, my state has those too. But the stuff at that level you linked too, and the stuff largely in the field, is mostly research based, which is what anon said they wanted to stay away from.

I'm very well versed in that kind of stuff, as I've known lots of local kids go to ag schools. But they do it so they can go on to do more research based stuff to make new advances in the field, not start up stuff on their own.

So what I'm saying is-- want to own a dairy/beef/chicken operation? Cool, but you don't need a specialized degree in it. None of the farmers in my community have them.

Want to figure out how to breed a strain of corn that gives bigger kernels, more ears, per acre, and is drought and flood resistant, you go get a few degrees.

Anon says they want to go into animal science, but as far as I know, the only thing you can do with animal science is either husbandry, veterinary services, or go into research fields about which genes are unfavorable in animals and how to eliminate them. Or encourage new traits.

But not to like... start or maintain an operation. Those businesses that do need someone with a degree in animal sciences tend to be large agribusinesses.