{"id":1534,"date":"2017-02-23T22:03:55","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T05:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wyomingextension.org\/agambassadors\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2017-02-23T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-24T05:03:55","slug":"why-rodeo-is-relevant-to-agriculture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/why-rodeo-is-relevant-to-agriculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Why rodeo is relevant to agriculture…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodeo is and forever will be a sport I hold near and dear to my heart. Without it, I wouldn\u2019t be attending college here at the University of Wyoming, and I probably never would have become involved or especially have chosen a career path in agriculture. So how did a competition of roping a calf or running a horse fast around a few barrels have such a large effect on my life, and how is it relevant to agriculture in any way, shape or form? Here\u2019s how.<\/p>\n

When asked where I was raised, I say a small horse ranch, which is really all it is. There is no production ag, cattle ranching, or growing of any crops. There has and always will be a lot of horses, a barn, an arena equipped with a roping and bucking chute, some calves and steers to rope, and usually a few random animals like alpacas, chickens or goats running around. Rodeo was really just a hobby my parents invested a lot of time into for my brothers and I when we were little, and for that we\u2019re very lucky. We spent countless hours training horses to do what we needed them to do for when it came time to perform on them. We spent too many hours traveling to and from rodeos cooped up in the pickup together. Most importantly, we learned the value of hard-work, and what can happen when you give something your all. Without rodeo, my family might not be my best friends in the world. Without rodeo, I wouldn\u2019t have traveled around the country gaining the experience and relationships that made me into who I am today. Without rodeo, I wouldn\u2019t have chosen to come to school here, mostly for the purpose to compete on this specific rodeo team so that I could carry on the family tradition.<\/p>\n

Without rodeo, I wouldn\u2019t have chosen Agricultural Communications to study as my major. Getting to travel around states such as Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado, and Wyoming, I saw first-hand how these states revolve around agriculture. There\u2019s more cattle in most of these states than there are people, and a heck of a lot more un-incorporated area than the opposite. I noticed that a lot of my friends grew up on ranches, and that ranching is the reason rodeo ever came about to be a sport. As I grew older, I saw how many people don\u2019t realize how large of an impact agriculture has on their economy, state, and life whether directly or indirectly. I decided to become informed on the matter, and became deeply involved in FFA and Ag classes, though I didn\u2019t know a whole lot about the areas myself to begin with.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m now becoming well-rounded in the different areas of Ag; plant sciences, animal sciences, Ag business, and even family and consumer science. My mission is to inspire kids who, like me, have an interest, but aren\u2019t sure what Ag really is, and what it\u2019s about. So many rodeo contestants I have met in my lifetime are either farmers, ranchers, or work for one of the two. It\u2019s clear that the two lifestyles go hand in hand. They both involve a lot of hard-work, dedication, and humbleness. The western way of life is one I am very proud to live, and one that I love learning more about everyday.<\/p>\n

-Madison Clark<\/p>\n

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Rodeo is and forever will be a sport I hold near and dear to my heart. Without it, I wouldn\u2019t be attending college here at the University of Wyoming, and I probably never would have become involved or especially have chosen a career path in agriculture. So how did a competition of roping a calf … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ag-ambassadors"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Le20-oK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyoextension.org\/agambassadors\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}