Program will help farm leadership
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By TODD COHEN
Staff writer
A Douglas County program to develop agricultural leadership and positive attitudes about agriculture likely will blossom into a statewide program next year, the Kansas Secretary of Agriculture said yesterday.
if the finances can be raised and other arrangements made, "Leadership Agriculture," could become familiar to people across Kansas, said Sam Brownback, the secretary.
The local program was created in the fall by Jack Lundquist, Douglas Cottman and Michael O'Brien.
Fifteen class members met for the first time Jan. 21 and will meet once a month until May with specialists in agricultural, business, politics and communication fields. Lindquist said. No registration fee was required and all speakers were volunteers.
"The main thrust is to develop people who can be county commissioners or serve in the Legislature," Brownback said.
Agriculture needs leaders to help farmers and the entire industry prosper now and in the future, he said.
"The bottom line is that agriculture is a minority industry." Brownback said. "The number of people associated with agriculture historically has declined, really ever since the Civil War."
Twenty other states have similar programs run by state agriculture boards, extension agents or through land-grant colleges, he said.
Kansas' program would be run by the state Board of Agriculture and Kansas State University, the country's first land-grant college.
"The concept holds promise."
Brownback said. "We're developing
a proposal now. We need to get it off the ground and funded."
Brownback said the state Board of Agriculture and K-State would use Douglas County's program as a model for the statewide program. Finances for the program would come from private sources, not the government.
Raising the money would be the state board of Agriculture's key role.
Roger and Sue Pine, who farm 3,500 acres near Lawrence, said they enrolled in the program to learn about the problems facing agriculture today and their possible solutions.
"We felt a need to get out of an isolation circle and see the big picture." Roger Pine said.
Sue Pine said, "I've watched my husband work harder and harder and not receive the results he'd hoped for. He's a more economic and political reasons for it."
The Pines said the program was very positive and would help them to know what farmers face "But not in obi storyway at all." Sue Pine said
Lindquist said he hadn't been aware of similar programs in other states until after working on Leadership Agriculture
"We sort of reinvented the wheel, but we localized our program to fit our needs," he said.
Lindquist said he was inspired to develop the program by the Leadership Lawrence and Leadership Kansan leaders that are designed for business leaders.
"Our class was wide open to anyone interested in the future of agriculture," Lindquist said.
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