I saw a funny blog post on Yahoo yesterday, ranking the top 5 ‘Useless Degrees’ to pursue in college. Agriculture and related degrees picked up three of the top five spots, broken up by only Fashion Design and Theater.

Seriously?

Last time I checked, agriculture is the only segment of the economy that has not tanked over the past five years. And with increasing needs to grow food more sustainably with fewer resources, including water, it seems we need more great young minds tackling these problems, not less.

But I’m no expert. I encourage you to read the response written by Allen Levine, Dean of the Food and Agriculture school at University of Minnesota. Levine appears to be a much more suited to interpret Department of Labor statistics. After all, with a job placement rate of nearly 90% for graduates from the food and ag school within a few months seems impressive to me, especially at time when unemployment for college grads is higher than it’s been in generations.

I suppose you can’t really blame the blogger for not knowing the facts. With less than 2% of us living on farms of any type today, it’s plausible that he really has no clue where his food comes from.