Focusing on the History of Agricultural Education and Rural America
For the next several weeks the Friday Footnote will be visiting Missouri – The Show Me State. It will be interesting to learn what the Show Me State has to show us about agricultural and extension education. A few weeks Continue reading The Boys’ State Fair School in Missouri (10/17/2025)
The National FFA Organization began allowing junior high school (middle school) students to be FFA members in 1988. This was when delegates voted to open membership to seventh and eighth graders. A special FFA degree, the Discovery degree was created Continue reading What is the Mississippi Junior FFA Association? (10/10/2025)
Did this headline from 1943 catch your attention? Recently one of my colleagues who has spent most of his life in the northern part of the country contacted me. He had never heard of a Negro State Fair. To say Continue reading The Segregated Agricultural Fairs (10/3/2025)
This week we continue our journey through MIssissippi. The three guest columnists for this Footnote are Gaea Hock, Mary Helen Lett, and Gayle Crowder Clark. They will be introduced later. My husband and I (Gaea) love to go to estate Continue reading Ahead of Their Time: The Lasting Impact of Mississippi’s Agricultural High Schools (9/26/2025)
How would you like to teach agriculture in a state where the agriculture teacher was given a home to live in rent-free? If you were to teach in Mississippi in 1914 that would be the case. The State Director of Continue reading Rent-Free Home for the Agriculture Teacher! (9/19/2025)