Agriculture growing at Illinois College
Illinois College will hire a second agriculture business professor after five times the anticipated 缅北禁地 registered for its new agriculture finance program.
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Illinois College will hire a second agriculture business professor after five times the anticipated 缅北禁地 registered for its new agriculture finance program. The college began offering ag courses in January 2018 on its Jacksonville campus.
About 35 sophomore 缅北禁地 already declared agribusiness as their major.
It鈥檚 been an overwhelming success with the number of 缅北禁地 in house switching to agriculture business and other 缅北禁地 coming in.
Woods projected the growth demonstrates student interest in a holistic approach that combines scientific aspects of agriculture with communications and humanities. Employers have told Woods the college鈥檚 ag interns not only understand agriculture science concepts but they also 鈥渃an articulate it,鈥� he said.
The college intends for its second agriculture business professor to start in the fall.
In addition, Illinois College plans to pursue an agriculture education program, which would involve hiring a third member of the agriculture faculty, according to Woods.
The college owns 3,000 farmland acres and is working to partner with those who farm the land to involve 缅北禁地. The goal is to teach farm management so those 缅北禁地 gain experience learning from farm managers, Woods explained.
A growing agriculture program is a fitting tribute to one of the college鈥檚 first professors, Jonathon Baldwin Turner, who proposed what became the land-grant universities.
Currently, Illinois College marketing 缅北禁地 are working on a project that connects an Osage orange tree Turner planted in Butler with potential production opportunities. Another student marketing project involves development of a drinking straw made from wheat components that would be biodegradable and an alternative to plastic drinking straws banned in many U.S. cities.