{"id":44669,"date":"2017-03-22T09:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=44669"},"modified":"2017-03-22T09:59:16","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T13:59:16","slug":"trips-to-panama-costa-rica-eye-opening-for-lake-campus-agriculture-students-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/03\/22\/trips-to-panama-costa-rica-eye-opening-for-lake-campus-agriculture-students-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Trips to Panama, Costa Rica eye-opening for Lake Campus agriculture students, faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tiffany Ricketts, a sophomore at Wright State\u2019s Lake Campus and one of the Ohio Farm Bureau\u2019s Young Agricultural Professionals, joined other university students on an agricultural tour of Panama last spring.<\/p><\/div>\n

Looking out at the Panama Canal, Wright State University agriculture student Tiffany Ricketts was awestruck at the sight before her.<\/p>\n

Mega-sized cargo ships carrying thousands of shipping containers were passing through the canal at the rate of about 40 per day. Equally mesmerizing was the thought that grain from Ohio or even her family farm in Mercer and Van Wert counties could be part of the convoy. After all, one of every three rows of the state\u2019s corn or soybeans is exported every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt made me think of the times I\u2019m in the tractor or Dad in the combine harvesting and that our own grain could be going through here,\u201d Ricketts told Our Ohio magazine, a publication of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.<\/p>\n

Ricketts, a sophomore at Wright State\u2019s Lake Campus<\/a> and one of the Ohio Farm Bureau\u2019s Young Agricultural Professionals, joined other university students on an agricultural tour of Panama last spring. They visited coffee, horse, orchid and other farms.<\/p>\n

\u201c(The trip) gave me a better idea of how things are grown in other parts of the world and how much manual labor can go into our food,\u201d Ricketts said. \u201cIt made me want to learn more about agriculture in other countries as well as my own.\u201d<\/p>\n

Every year, Ohio farmers travel to other countries either on their own, with universities or with trade and commodity groups to learn more about agriculture. Some go on the trips to learn new or innovative ways to improve and grow their own operations while others travel abroad to learn about international trade or crops not typically grown in the United States.<\/p>\n

Greg McGlinch, coordinator of the agriculture program<\/a> at Lake Campus and member of the Darke County Farm Bureau, visited a red snapper fish farm in Costa Rica last year and saw how U.S. soybeans are used to feed the fish.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s nice to see how the soybeans and corn grown in the U.S. can be used down there to help them be sustainable and protect their environment and use it for a high value crop,\u201d said McGlinch, who also went on the Wright State trip to Panama. \u201cWhen I go out and harvest soybeans, I have a better understanding of why it\u2019s so important to keep grain clean and focus on the quality to preserve and grow our market share.\u201d<\/p>\n

The content of this article was first printed<\/a> in the March\/April edition of Our Ohio magazine, a publication of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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