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[quote=Anonymous]Does his school offer 4-H Club?  That would be the best thing for him to get involved with right now, even if it is only doing the 4-H at Home.

You may also want to reach out to some of the local farmers and see if he can do an unpaid mini internship at their farms.  Note I said unpaid because many small farmers work on such tight margins that they won't be able to pay him but it will give him a chance to get his feet wet.  We own a farm that we lease out.  Our lessee frequently will have high school and college kids doing unpaid mini internships.  A lot of those young people then go on to either their own farms or different parts of the agriculture and production cycle.  It is so nice when we go to some of our industry meetings and we'll see those kids now 5-10 years older - literally all grown up and starting their own families.  They cut their teeth at our place and they still come back to us for advice and guidance as they move forward.

If your son is thinking about careers one place he should consider, in addition to the schools with heavy agriculture emphasis, would be some place like St Joseph's in their Food Marketing program.  He could major in that and minor in Environmental and Sustainability Studies.

Another direction could be Supply Chain.[/quote]

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