PDA learned that we need to do more work with our agriculture education partners in talking about the connection between production agriculture and the broader food processing and food distribution system.
Along the same lines, people in ag ed know quite a bit about the jobs in production agriculture but they are a little less knowledgeable about careers in the broader industry. Farmers, veterinarians, and dairy herdsmen are critically important to agriculture production but so are machine operators, industrial maintenance technicians, and truck drivers for food processing.
Finally, we learned again what we already know...that agriculture education has many resources for work-based learning. It knows how to do it; we just need to work on applying it in a broader context.
