Some farmer could't instill the farming spirit into his kids he also wanted to educate in the big city
Water and oil ... they just don't mix
Sometimes “farming spirit” just isn’t enough in an age of megafarms.
I know a young fellow from downstate Illinois, grew up on a farm in a community barely larger than the dot representing it on the map. He openly told me that his parents required him to go to college...they’re prescient enough to see they can’t carry their small farm forward another generation. So, he’s moving forward as a civil engineer.