Enthusiasm is there for high school ag programs

I read your very interesting January cover story, “High Skills in the High Schools.” (That was after spending some time at the Grey Bruce Farmers' Week with a display to promote our program.)

The enthusiasm is definitely there for the agriculture programs such as the Huron Perth one and ours, but we need to keep getting the information out there.

I agree with John Hyde from Ontario Agri-Food Education that we need to get the agriculture community behind this to encourage boards to maintain programs such as these.

I also agree with the comment in your Behind the Lines section that we need to include
some information on the law. We hope to do that in the other curriculum that we are developing in semester two (in our "Business” segment of the course).

I hope that Better Farming will continue to talk about these programs to encourage other boards to take part. I'm a true believer in supporting agriculture and will continue to do my part in encouraging people to get involved.

Joy Johnson
Specialist High Skills Pilot Project Coordinator