Congratulations to Robert T. McGarry, Enosburg Falls, Vt., and Lyman Rudgers, Attica, N.Y., who were selected as the 2012 recipients of the Fred Stout Experience Awards. McGarry was named the JMS Internship Recipient and Rudgers was named the Farm Experience Recipient.
Robert McGarry begins his internship with Jersey Marketing Service on May 21. His experience will include working on the crews at the Cow Power Sale on June 23 in Byron, N.Y., and the 55th National Heifer Sale, June 30 in Fryeburg, Maine. A junior at Virginia Tech majoring in dairy science with a minor in applied agricultural economics, Robert also works in the university’s Mastitis and Immunology Lab, taking blood samples from calves and cows in addition to regular lab work. He is a member of the Virginia Tech Dairy Club and worked with the Showcase Sales held in 2010 and 2011.
A lifelong breeder of Registered Jerseys(tm), Lyman Rudgers of Attica, N.Y., was selected for the on-farm experience this year. He is completing his first year of studies in dairy science at the State University of New York, Morrisville. Over the past five years, Lyman has developed his management skills working at a calf-raising operation and three dairies in the area. For more than two years, he was the wet calf feeder at Merle Heifers LLC, managing 90-plus calves on milk in individual stalls. He currently works at Boxler Dairy Farm at Varysburg, N.Y. Lyman is taking care of fresh cows and calves at this 2,000-cow operation, in addition to entering records in DairyCOMP 305.
The fund supporting these awards was created in 2000 in memory of Fred J. Stout Sr., Mt. Carmel, Ill., a lifelong Jersey breeder and member of the Jersey Marketing Service staff from 1978 to 1997. Stout was instrumental in the growth of JMS marketing activities, and later added duties as a type evaluator and in customer field service for the American Jersey Cattle Association (AJCA)
Source: US Jersey