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Farmers should talk up ag two hours a month
One of the speakers at the South Dakota AgOutlook conference says that farmers need to commit to telling the story of agriculture. Dr. Jay Lehr from Ohio tells Brownfield Ag News that a 30-day month consists of 720 hours.
“I believe that every farmer needs to commit two of those 720 hours to educating the public,” said Lehr, who spends about 120 days a year traveling North America talking to farm groups about the future of agriculture.
“I’m recruiting in every audience that I speak to and I’m very successful at it,” he said.
In his experience, Lehr says people on the coasts are not antagonistic, they simply have little understanding of agriculture.
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