Agriculture j
8J Usa fewer than 44,000 college
Capilal News Servia graduates are expected each
LANSING - Michigan's year, which leaves a 10 percent
secoad large industry oould gap.
faa! a people rtage within -&e e��
the next fi� years if public the word agrialIture with far
awareness does not increase, mg." said Dr. Eugene Trotter,
M yexperts agree that ck associate professor in the Col­
of owIedge about the diver- lege of Agriadture and � tural
sity of jobs available in agriaal- ' Resources at Michigan State
ture i repsoasible for turning Un�rsity. "FarmiDg. only a
a ay potential students and smaD part of iL •
employees. "The field of agriculture ea-
According to a study done by compasses .�rything from the
the GO'Iemor's Task Force OG farm to the consumer."
the Revitalization of Agricul- �SU offer 12 t o-y�ar
ture Through Education and maJO and 16 four-year maJO
Researc (TFRARE), there that all ran under the title,
will be more jobs vailable than agriculture and natural resour-
there will be people to fill them. ces,
The report stated that with· Packaging attracts the
thenext r� years, more th largest number of studeats, just
48,000 employment oppor- UDder one-sixth of the total in
tuaiti are expected annually the college. :Veterinary
for coUcge graduates in . ad- medicine, forestry, botany. and
ture and related fields. Yet agricultural economics are
o eyq
po r of ponsoring money­
geoeratiDg events and activities.
Many of are forever goiDg 'to.
emiDar , conferences,
WOI'bil'ops, clinics, parties, etc.
B seldom Slop to consider
the money-�king poteDtiaI of
the ctivity in ich we are ea­
gagiDg
Th· failure occurs despite
the fact that Black America
built some of the m beautiful
church in the COUDtry by ea­
. . lDOIley-maang eveats
.......... fro trips to bake
to beauty pageants to
clinics.
That . ch you can do to aid
0YeI'1ooked your church, sorority, civic or­
e ganizatioo or social dub, �
I
LIsa _
H at
DI Griffe, Pr d etl as:
Word bas it oegotiatioDs foe
the sale of SOLAR Records. 0
word yet OD Griffey seD
to or for t amouDt. Ca • o�
who baDdies distrbltioD. of the
Iabe� just restructured· deal
. SOLAR and is a top bid­
der. SOLAR Records, the oaIy
major record . label held by a
Black (. the reeeat pur­
chase of Motown to MCA d
Bostoa V ), posted sales
of $43 million· 1987.
For e .. el. es
: POI" the secood )'em' ill a
row, DO Blac::b mades the lU­
bes 400 .• It was in 1986,
that tw9 Blacks - John H.
Johnson d Berry GOldy de
the Forbes IistiDg of the richest
pecple i America, but both
, were excluded in 'frl, they
. were surpassed by the risiDg net
worth of the individuals listed.
Today, the a�age net worth of
diose makiDg the list· well OYer
other possible majors.
It is 'aU of these and more that
make up the entire picture yet
the pub. stijl ins' OIl calling
i filar' Trotter
said.
Enrollment in the MSU Col­
lege of Agriallture and Natural
Resources has been OIl a steady
decline si ee i peaked in 1�.
There w major drop be­
tweeD 1983 and 1984 that shoo
I the field of agriculture into
marketing themseku and pot
just their products.
"People involved m agriaal­
ture were used to sitting back on
their laurels," Trotter said.
"They just figured that people
needed to eat and that was that"
While it is true that people do
depend 0 agriculture for sur­
vival, Trotter said that to keep
the high quality in the Products
you must keep high quality
peopleJn the field And to reach
I'
igh quality in try's importance and fu-
employees, eve from the ture.
rural areas to e .ty must be "How are going to attract
ware that there a place for I that bright young person?,· Bill
them in agrirultur � , l'racy, TFRARE co-vice chair-
Dr. John Fe . pr of person, asked in the report.
agriculture econ ics at MSU, 1 "How are we going to make •
said that while e declining them aware of the way that they
Dumbers of stude IS in agr ical- can make a living in agrirulture?
ture could be . it could The image (of agriculture) real-
also be a sign of ess, Iy hasn't been too great"
"As long as tbe t peop �SU sponsors about 125
are fiOiug the right iobs there is awareD ess/re cr u itmen t
DO need to panic," Ferri .said, ' progrum that Trotter . will·
'What we Deed ar researchers help shed light on the situation.
and people to dv ce the tedl- He said that students with
DOlogical aspect less peop . skilk in math and science will be
will be needed to 0 the same able to write their own ticket if
job." they choose to apply their
TFRARE rec mmended taleDts to agriculture,
starting agricultur education "lf it's, true that peop go
as CJrly as kinder n. Part of where the job are then the
that education will be aeating decline of recent years ould
areness in the iety of jobs rome to a bait," Tr tter said
available and a . a pos� "Agriculture is not just for
public per ce pti n of the farmers anymore."
y - spon�--
can aka do to aid yourself finan­
cially. With the elp of t9(O or
three friends, there is DO limit to
the types of eveets and activit
yo can sponsor and generate
haDdsome dollar returns OD
your time and effort.
In earlier columns, I have
mentioned the story of the lady
in � who with the aid of
four associates started sponsor- .
. for the citys West· dian
oommunity a few yeers ago aad
D the most recent party too
place 2,(0) people owed up
payiDgSlS a persoa to attend. In
other words, OYer S30,{XX}
generated· must 0 e Dight
Now, your first �nt . lDO
go· to geoerate $30,(0). But
,
even if it only prod ces S3,{XX} clinics, re I estate seminar ,
or just S300, you uld have. credit repair orks oil', self­
� laying a fou dation for . hypnosis trainmg are all good
bigger and better e nts which places to start. .
produce larger nd larger You do Dot persoaally have
amounts of money. in, there to know mudi about the topic in
. a process to put yourself order to ponsor a financially
in a position to gen ate quick rewarding even You m be
money. You must st lay the prepared to pay someooe who
foundation and egio the . doe know the topic a maD
process, ho orarium to actually conduct
However, for theseminar,�tor kshop.·
best to start $II1al1 an with li I However t your top three
flDaDcial risk. We generally needs wiU be 1.) Publicity, 2)
recommeDd to the build- Publicity and 3) licit}.. You
clubs we have h lped for must get the rd 0 and iii the
that seminars, wor ops aad process convince D ample
small sporting �D e a good Dumber of people to attead,
place to tart.
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