. Agri-news. Agriculture. October 5, 1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE VIEWS OF A GREEN CERTIFICATE GRADUATE David Bentley, a fourth-year University of Alberta agricultural student and a recent graduate of the Alberta Green Certificate Farm Training Program, says that he had a better idea of what courses would benefit him most in the working world after having partici- pated in the green certificate program, and that it helped him to decide on the direction he wants his career to take. David came to Canada in 1975 with his parents who had lived in a village in England. The family first settled in
. Agri-news. Agriculture. October 5, 1981 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE THE VIEWS OF A GREEN CERTIFICATE GRADUATE David Bentley, a fourth-year University of Alberta agricultural student and a recent graduate of the Alberta Green Certificate Farm Training Program, says that he had a better idea of what courses would benefit him most in the working world after having partici- pated in the green certificate program, and that it helped him to decide on the direction he wants his career to take. David came to Canada in 1975 with his parents who had lived in a village in England. The family first settled in Ontario where David took his high school and then moved to Edmonton, Alberta. In 1977, after having taken a year off from studying, David enrolled in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Agriculture. At the end of his second year, he decided to take another year off, this time to get some practical agricultural experience. He was looking for something that would give him a reasonably broad view of the agricultural industry when David Bentley doing a friend, who was working as a summer assistant district agri- routine chores. culturist at Ponoka, told him about the Green Certificate Farm Training Program. After some investigation, David felt that this program seemed to provide the experience that he was look- ing for. In addition to practical farming experience, it offered insight into the areas of exten- sion and agribusiness through contact he would have with extension personnel and agri- business representatives. The next step was to contact the farm training specialist for the Edmonton area. David was then screened from the point of view of suitability and given a list of farmers who - (cont'd) -. Phone: (403) 427-2127 ydlberra AGRICULTURE Communications Division. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the origin
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