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Comment author: buybuydandavis 10 March 2014 07:32:42PM 0 points [-]

You should consider an academic career like a professional sports career - lots more people on the university farm teams than ever will make it to the pros. A quasi academic career is the part time lecturer, full time consultant/entrepreneur route. There's a lot of professional value in association with a university.

Comment author: Clarity 25 October 2015 03:12:01AM *  -1 points [-]

those farm teams are going out the window. Agronomists are soon to be obsolete. A handful of experts can literally do extension for a whole country, check it out

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Comment author: Romashka 25 October 2015 01:21:48PM 0 points [-]

And how would a handful of experts collect data on new varieties of crops, including but not limited to GMO? On the distribution - likely expansion! - of carantine weeds and pests? By relying on some farmer's reports?

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