{"id":2789,"date":"2022-05-07T17:32:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T17:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=2789"},"modified":"2022-05-07T17:32:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T17:32:12","slug":"going-into-agronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/going-into-agronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Going into Agronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As you\u2019ve probably heard from many advisors and students in the Agronomy department, a background in agriculture is not necessary to major in Agronomy or Plant Genetics. I grew up in the suburbs and had very little exposure to agriculture in the classes and extra-curriculars offered at my high school. It wasn\u2019t until I started looking into different genetics-based majors that I really considered a major in the field of agriculture. Coming in as a freshman, I was a little worried about my limited knowledge about crops and agriculture in general. However, through classes I\u2019ve taken at Purdue and internship experience, I\u2019ve learned a lot; my interest in genetics and agriculture has only grown. Don&#8217;t let any worries about not having a strong ag background keep you from exploring the different majors and minors the Agronomy department has to offer!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you\u2019ve probably heard from many advisors and students in the Agronomy department, a background in agriculture is not necessary to major in Agronomy or Plant Genetics. I grew up in the suburbs and had very little exposure to agriculture in the classes and extra-curriculars offered at my high school. It wasn\u2019t until I started&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2790,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2789\/revisions\/2790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}