Outreach grows next-generation leaders for agriculture, life sciences
Story Date: 5/10/2018

 

Source: MORNING AG CLIPS, 5/9/18

A well-known fact about U.S. agricultural jobs: The country needs far more ag professionals than American universities graduate each year. NC State’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is out to change that, in part by encouraging pre-college students and their educators to see how diverse and important agriculture actually is. As an NC State 4-H youth development specialist for horticultural science, crop and soil science and entomology, Liz Driscoll points out that not many people realize that the agricultural field is broader than farming. 

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