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Steve Brown

Jessica Fernandes heads the agriculture program at Buena Park High School. Students can learn everything from ag economics to how how to drive a tractor, like sophomore Moses Nathan Talavera.

Solving America’s farming crisis involves our urban high schools

Development & Education

There’s a crisis on the farms of America: Young people don’t want to work there. Agriculture experts are well aware of this. One strategy is to reach out to low-income, minority students, often immigrants in urban areas, grooming them to someday run the farm.

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