Emilie Strand visited the Newport office last week as part of the Farm Credit Fellows program. Emilie is from Cazadero, California. In high school Emile became interested in livestock, especially dairy cattle, through FFA and cattle judging. She also participated in high school rodeo events. She caught the “bug” and earned money through her first two years of college at Modesto Junior College (Modesto, CA) by clipping cattle for shows, pictures, and registered cattle classification. She is about to start her senior year at Cornell University where she will graduate with a BA in Animal Science, concentrated in dairy. While visiting the Newport office Emilie participated in construction inspections, learned about maple production, saw her first robotic milking system, and learned more about Farm Credit, as well as the agriculture in Vermont. Prior to her one week Fellow internship, Emilie spent the summer doing an internship with Alta Genetics in the mid-west, spending most of her time in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
