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One kernel of grain is enough to change the world Recent regional farm tour hosted by Kingman Marketing Club has profound effect on participants from many nations
Michelle Pinon Editor - Lamont Leader
One kernel of grain is enough to change the world. That was one of the powerful sentiments expressed during a recent regional farm tour held near Kingman. Members of the Kingman Marketing Club, which hosted the tour for graduate students and faculty members from the University of Alberta’s Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology (REES) Program, heard a lot of positive comments from participants during the annual event. The tour showcased several of the club mem-
bers’ crops and farming operations. The tour was spearheaded four years ago by Kingman area resident and agricultural economics professor Will Pattison, and it was a great learning opportunity for students and producers alike. Pattison said it was a wonderful chance for students from other countries to see Canadian crops and talk to producers, and for producers to be in contact with students and faculty and learn more about the academic side of things and how one influences and affects the other. “For many of them, (the students), they have
never been on a farm,” added Pattison, who believes you can’t put a dollar value on the tour’s experience, which he says has a powerful impact and influence on participants. The graduate students, who hailed from Zimbabwe, Iran, India, China, Hungary, Burma, Ukraine, and the United States, all commented on how fortunate they are to take part in the tour. Several of the students commented that agriculture was an abstract idea, or a concept viewed through the internet or studied in textbooks; so being able to see and touch the product and converse with producers was a definite eye opener
for them. A few of the graduate students said it wasn’t
their first crop tour, but they did say they always learn new things each
and every time they participate. See KINGMAN P2
Graduate students from other nations participating in the tour said that first hand contact with producers and crops was an eye-opening experience.
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