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Class XIV of the Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program Arrives in Spain
Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:51:33 CST
Class 14 of the Oklahoma Ag Leadership Program has landed in Spain for the first leg of its international experience.
The group of 28 young agricultural professionals is traveling through Southern Spain and Morocco over the next two weeks learning about agriculture and what it means for producers in that part of the world.
On Wednesday February 17th, the class landed in Madrid Spain and then hopped aboard another airplane for a short flight to Malaga, a city on the Southern Mediterranean coast.
Annette Riherd is an organic farmer near Oologah, Oklahoma. Her eye was immediately drawn to the fresh produce waiting for customers at the small markets along the street. She noticed some familiar vegetables, but also several items that she says that she has never seen before, adding the bell peppers that were at the streetside markets were huge and that she had never seen any that big before.
On the February 18th the class boards a ferry to cross the straight of Gibraltar to Tangier in Morocco. Their first stop in the third most populous Arab country in the world is the national school of agriculture.
Click on the Listen Bar below for the first report of the 2010 International Travel Experience of the OALP from Clinton Griffiths of SUNUP, who is traveling with the group in Europe and North Africa.
The picture that Clinton provides is of a street sculpture that caught the eye of the class- this on the streets of Malaga.
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