World Dairy Expo Supplement (complete PDF) - Hoards Dairyman

HOARD’S DAIRYMAN
EXPO 28 September 10, 2011
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Around the world of dairy
Top 10 seniors honored
NATIONAL Dairy Shrine has recognized
10 of the nation’s top college
dairy students for
their outstanding
leadership and
academic abilities.
This year’s
top student and
winner of the
$2,000 award is
Brandon Thes ­
ing of Winona, Minn. See the August
25 issue, page 542.
Second-place honors and an award
of $1,500 goes to Brittany Thompson
of Snow Camp, N.C. Brittany
earned a dairy
science degree
from Virginia
Tech in May and
took a job with
Pfizer Animal
Health. Brittany
served as
president of the
North Carolina Junior Holstein
Association. As a sophomore, she
was a member of the dairy judging
team that won the National Intercollegiate
and All-American contests.
Brittany was named the outstanding
senior by the Dairy Science
Department in 2010.
Rounding out the list of winners
are eight students who will each
receive $1,000.
Cassandra Dutcher will graduate
from Kansas State University
with an animal science degree in the
fall. Cassandra
leads the Little
American Royal
and participates
in Army ROTC.
She has completed
summer
internships at the
Hoard’s Dairyman
Farm and at Heartland Jerseys
in Kansas. She plans to join the family
dairy as the fifth generation.
Joshua Ebert graduated in May
from Penn State with an animal
science degree. He served as Penn
State’s Dairy Expo show manager.
Josh was a
member of the
2010 dairy judging
team that
placed fourth
overall at the
National Intercollegiatecontest.
He has
taken a position with Cargill Animal
Nutrition.
Kristin Hogan completed majors
in animal sciences and general agriculture
as well as a communications
minor at Oregon
State University
in June. Kristin
served two
terms as president
of the dairy
club and was the
2009 National
Jersey Queen.
She has also been successful in
dairy cattle judging, earning high
individual honors at the N.A.I.L.E.
contest in 2007.
Corey Kayhart graduated from
Cornell University with a degree in
animal science in May. Corey served
as vice-president and treasurer of
the dairy science
club. He was a
member of the
2010 dairy judging
team that
was third over all
at Expo. He also
competed in the
2011 Dairy Challenge
contest, where his team earned
a first-place platinum award. He has
begun a career at Farm Credit.
Emily Lyons graduated in May
from the University of Illinois with
a degree in animal sciences and a
minor in environmental economics
and law. She served as treasurer
and secretary of
the Illini Dairy
Club. Her team
earned a gold
award at the 2011
North American
I n t e r c o l l e g i a t e
Dairy Challenge.
Emily plans to
attend law school to study agricultural
and environmental law.
Ashley Sears completed degrees
in business and animal science
at Cornell University in May. She
competed on the 2010 dairy judging
team that placed third at the
National Intercollegiatecontest.
Her homebred
Guernsey
cow, Indian
Acres MM Pistachio
Pie, was
named Supreme
Champion at
World Dairy Expo in 2007. Ashley was
a classification intern with Holstein
Association USA and a public policy
intern in Washington D.C. She plans
to attend law school in the fall.
Hannah Thompson graduated
from The Ohio State University in
May with a degree in agricultural
commu n ication.
Thompson also
won the Kildee
Scholarship, and
you can read more
about Hannah on
page EXPO 29.
Abby (Udermann)
Thesing
completed an animal science degree
and applied economics minor at the
University of Minnesota in May. She
was a member of
the 2010 dairy
judging team
that placed first
at the All-American
and second
overall at the
National Intercollegiate
contest.
Abby completed a internship with
Genex/CRI last summer and has now
joined the organization full time.
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