Keith Kisling receives the Governor's Outstanding Achievement in Agriculture Award
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May 11, 2018
Keith Kisling, shown in a wheat field near his house outside Burlington, was recognized with the Governor's Outstanding Achievement in Agriculture Award on Wednesday.
Everyone was listening to Burlington High School vocational-agriculture teacher Keith Kisling.
Including Kisling himself.
It was the early 1970s, Kisling was 28 years old and still pretty fresh out of Oklahoma State University.
"When I was teaching I was telling the kids that there's just not very many young farmers coming back and the potential to farm is going to be pretty big," he said. "Not only did I convince them to come back, but I convinced myself and that's when we got started."
On Wednesday, Keith Kisling of Burlington received the Governor's Outstanding Achievement in Agriculture Aw...
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