Education
- Sioux Falls Christian – Sioux Falls, SD
High School Diploma, May 2009
- Dordt College– Sioux Center, IA
Agriculture: Animal Science, May 2013
-Joe’s Ready Mix Scholarship
-Presidential Scholarship
-Alumni Scholarship
-Distance Scholarship
-Trans Ova Genetics Scholarship
Experience
- Yosemite Jersey Dairy, Hilmar, California, June 2011-August 2011 (Hilmar Cheese Dairy Internship)
- Intern
- Learned and gained experienced in many different aspects of large-scale, west-coast style dairies
o Management, nutrition, feeding, breeding, hospital care, milking, overall care of animals
- Gained valuable hands-on experience and a new interest in dairy management
- Dordt College, Sioux Center, IA, Aug. 2009-May 2010; Aug. 2010-May 2011; Aug. 2011-Present
- Maintenance in Campus Center: cleaned and helped set up for events; August 2009-May 2010
- Game room worker: manage the student game room; August 2010-present
- County Edge Dairy, Inwood, IA, May 2006-Present (Part Time)
- Responsible for different things when working heifers
- Helping with all phases of herd health during vet checks from marking cows, giving injections, and preparing blood samples
- Responsible for mowing and weeding when necessary to keep the grounds looking nice
- Helped with other jobs such as covering silage piles, running errands, feeding calves, moving cows
- Performed computer work: ordering ear tags, entering cows into the system
- Helped feed and care for bottle calves
- Under Christ’s Care Summer Care, Sioux Falls, SD, May 2009-Aug. 2009; May 2010-Aug. 2010
- Helped plan activities for the summer; cared for children ages kindergarten through 5th grade
Activities
l Dordt College Ag. Club, August 2009-present; Secretary, December 2010-November 2011
l Iowa Farm Bureau member
l Iowa Post-Secondary Agriculture Student Organization member
l Worked for the Central Plains Dairy Association Expo.: 2009, 2010, 2011 under Kathy Tonneson
l Dawson McCallister HopeLine HopeCoach Volunteer
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