Professionals Working in Kentucky Agriculture
Cattle Farmer
Aaron Clark of Clark Family Farm in Lexington has been in the cattle business for eight and a half years, but jokes that it has been a lifelong endeavor.
Pig Nutritionist
Rachel Cole works as the Swine Account Manager at the KENT Nutrition Group.
From football to farming: UK quarterback Brock Vandagriff looks to the future
Kentucky football quarterback Brock Vandagriff is tackling a master’s degree in community and leadership development in the Martin-Gatton College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Dairy Consultant
Brilee Tucker is a graduate of Western Kentucky University. She currently works for the Kentucky Dairy Development Council as a dairy consultant. “My main goal as a consultant is to be a resource for Kentucky’s dairy producers and work with our organization to provide educational opportunities that allow those producers to enhance and progress their operations."
Nutrigenomics Research Fellow
Layne Ellen Harris is a Ph.D. Research Fellow for the Alltech Center for Animal Nutrigenomics & Applied Animal Nutrition in Nicholasville. Her experiments observe how nutrition influences the gene expression of plants and animals and how the downstream effects of that expression can affect the overall health of the plant or animal.
Asset Technology Intern
“I am currently an Asset Technology Intern for Royal DSM Nutritional Products in Winchester, Ky. The facility is a pilot plant that supports both scaling up of new research and development projects as well as improvement of current industrial scale processes.”