By MICHAEL NEARY

El Dorado News-Times

MAGNOLIA — When Katherine Dockter graduates from Southern Arkansas University, she wants to help financially struggling communities cultivate sustainable agriculture programs, possibly through the Peace Corps.

To do that, she’ll need training that wanders beyond a knowledge of how to grow crops — though that will help, too.

“You have to think about what you are doing, about how you’re tilling in context with the climate and the needs of the people,” said Dockter, an agricultural science and biology double maj...