Congratulations to Kim Wilson, Neosho, Mo., and Ivy M. Roberts, Mount Berry, Ga., for being selected as the 2010 recipients of the Fred Stout Experience Awards by the American Jersey Cattle Association.
The award fund was created in 2000 in memory of Fred J. Stout Jr., Mt. Carmel, Ill., a lifelong Jersey breeder and member of the Jersey Marketing Service (JMS) staff from 1978 to 1997. Stout was instrumental in the growth of the company’s marketing activities, and later added duties as a type evaluator and in customer field service for the American Jersey Cattle Association (AJCA). Stout believed that the best learning experiences happen in the everyday world. These awards honor that conviction by providing financial support for on-farm and JMS internship experiences.
Kim Wilson started her eight-week internship with Jersey Marketing Service on May 10 assisting with the Illinois Invitational Sale. Her experience will include herd visits with JMS Manager Dan Bauer, working in the national Jersey headquarters, and traveling to Oregon to work on the crew for the 53rd National Heifer Sale, June 26.
Wilson is a rising senior at Oklahoma State University, majoring in animal science with an option in livestock merchandising. She lives and works at the school’s dairy cattle center, is a student supervisor and has assisted with research trials to evaluate calf starters. She was a member of the OSU dairy judging team that placed ninth in the 2009 national intercollegiate contest, and also the Neosho FFA team that was national champion in 2006.
For her on-farm Stout Experience, Ivy M. Roberts will intern at the 700-cow Registered Jersey™ dairy owned by AJCA Director Bill Grammer and family near Sebring, Ohio.
Roberts will graduate in December 2010 from Berry College with a B.S. degree in animal science. She has a keen interest in genetics. Since 2006, she has worked with large animal and ET vets in different capacities, and also worked at Barham Jersey Farm in Tennessee and Waverly Farm in Virginia. From February 2009 through graduation, she was the student CEO of the Berry Farms Genetic Enterprise, helping create and execute its business plan. For the past three years she was been very involved in organizing the embryo flush program and marketing embryos at Berry.