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BRETT BOBO
Grateful for His Start At Gadsden State Brett Bobo was a senior at Plainview High School in Rainsville when contemplating his future with his father, William. “We were talking about what type of career I wanted to pursue when I saw an advertisement for a program at Gadsden State,” he said. “It was the clarity I needed.” The advertisement was for the 2+2 Poultry Science Program at the Cherokee County Campus of Gadsden State Community College. The program gives students the opportunity to complete their freshman and sophomore years at Gadsden State Cherokee and their junior and senior years at Auburn University. In the end, students earn a bachelor’s degree in Poultry Science. 6
“The 2+2 Poultry Science Program was a perfect fit for me because poultry is about all I know,” he said. Since 2006, Bobo’s family has raised chickens in four boiler houses located at the family’s Rainsville farm. “I was 11 years old when we started in the poultry business,” he said. “It’s an industry we know, an industry we enjoy.” Poultry is Alabama’s most profitable agricultural industry generating more than $3.1 billion each year and accounting for more than 65 percent of the state’s annual farming revenues. It is also an industry that has a wide variety of job opportunities. There are opportunities available in cherokee-chamber.org
