A Degree in Agriculture?

SteveHants

Member
Livestock Farmer
Livestock in particular is less about formal education more about picking up those tiny details

Stockmanship (whatever stock you choose) is all about "noticing stuff" - but what do you do when you do notice things? Why are you noticing them? Are you always looking in the right place (think: FECs etc)?
How do you know your livestock enterprise is performing?
How will you measure it?
How will you interpret your (and others) data?
What is the opportunity cost of farming in the way you are?
How do other farms approach problems?
Are their solutions different to yours? What is the impact of that?
Could you change your business approach? What are the financial implications of making changes?

These are things skills learned during a degree could help you to address successfully.
 

Cowmansam

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Shropshire
Stockmanship (whatever stock you choose) is all about "noticing stuff" - but what do you do when you do notice things? Why are you noticing them? Are you always looking in the right place (think: FECs etc)?
How do you know your livestock enterprise is performing?
How will you measure it?
How will you interpret your (and others) data?
What is the opportunity cost of farming in the way you are?
How do other farms approach problems?
Are their solutions different to yours? What is the impact of that?
Could you change your business approach? What are the financial implications of making changes?

These are things skills learned during a degree could help you to address successfully.
They could but I just don’t believe it’s necessary you should be trying to educate yourself all the time any time I don’t know something i make a point of researching it it’s a mindset you can go to uni and learn nothing or not go and learn as much as you can there’s as much to be gained from peer to peer learning from people actually doing the job that’s why I attend several meetings a year put on by our vets to discuss things with other farmers running decent systems my experience of ag collage was the lectures are all failed farmers every other sentence started with when I used to keep cows or pigs or what have you well if they where half decent they would still be doing it
 

Hilly

Member
Stockmanship (whatever stock you choose) is all about "noticing stuff" - but what do you do when you do notice things? Why are you noticing them? Are you always looking in the right place (think: FECs etc)?
How do you know your livestock enterprise is performing?
How will you measure it?
How will you interpret your (and others) data?
What is the opportunity cost of farming in the way you are?
How do other farms approach problems?
Are their solutions different to yours? What is the impact of that?
Could you change your business approach? What are the financial implications of making changes?

These are things skills learned during a degree could help you to address successfully.
If you have to go to university to learn the above the human race is in deep trouble I fear.
 

Bruce Almighty

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Warwickshire
"‘Learned’ and ‘learnt’ are both used as the past participle and past tense forms of the verb ‘to learn’. Both versions of the word are actually correct and widely used in the English-speaking world, but there is one small difference between the two words. ‘Learned’ is the preferred way of spelling in the US and Canada, while ‘learnt’ is favoured in British English."

Now is now ;) .
Look again

“You`ll learn the practical side but there's more to it than that I`m sure you now.”

Glasshouses and stones come to mind ?
 

Nitrams

Member
Location
Cornwall
"‘Learned’ and ‘learnt’ are both used as the past participle and past tense forms of the verb ‘to learn’. Both versions of the word are actually correct and widely used in the English-speaking world, but there is one small difference between the two words. ‘Learned’ is the preferred way of spelling in the US and Canada, while ‘learnt’ is favoured in British English."

Now is now ;) .
You obviously had further academic education to know that but the truth is it make f all difference in the real world whichever way you spell it or which ever form you choose to use whuch nicely sums up alot of further academic education😂
 

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