The Natural Resources Conservation Service is struggling to fill jobs across Rural America. NRCS Chief Terry Cosby cites the college curriculum as a problem. “Most college campuses have dropped classes out of their curriculum that are important to us, mainly soils courses,” said Cosby. “What we’re finding is that when they’re graduating from college, they don’t qualify to come work for us because they don’t have a soils course. It seems to me that anyone that’s in agriculture, a foundational course would be soils; you have to understand that because that is the backbone of farming and what we do.”
