Professionals Working in Kentucky Agriculture
Digital Agriculture Engineer and Instructor
Tucker is currently an Agricultural and Biological Engineering instructor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as the Assistant Director of Education for the Center for Digital AG (CDA) and The Artificial Intelligence for Future Agricultural Resilience, Management, and Sustainability Institute (AIFARMS).
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.”
Live Production Manager
Jared Shelton is the Live Production Manager at Perdue Farms in Cromwell, KY. In his current job, Jared helps his “very talented and dedicated management team” manage all aspects of live broiler production, starting with the egg all the way through to the market-age chicken that is delivered to the processing plant.