Agriculture Education

In response to the recently passed House Bill 265, USU plans to merge colleges and offer staff voluntary separation as part of a sweeping budget overhaul.

Today we’ll mark a decade of USU’s Farm in Literature and Culture course. Our guests include USU lecturers, professors, and a USU student who says the class has had a continuing influence on her life.

“What we're trying to do is prevent working farms and ranches from being converted to homes or to commercial areas where they can no longer produce food,” said Jeremy Christensen with the Utah Department of Agriculture and Food.

With the increased popularity of ready-made meals and cheap fast food, more people seem to be becoming disconnected from farming. But this disconnection…