Animal Science Graduate Manages Local Farm

Micah Studdard (14C) knows something about firsthand experiences. As an animal science major at Berry, the 2014 graduate worked more than 4,000 hours (you read that correctly) in jobs related to his major – from beef cattle operations to The Berry Farms Angus Beef student enterprise to Berry’s on-campus dairy. Today, he’s putting that experience – and his education – to work as manager of Lyons Bridge Farm in Cave Spring, Ga., where he is responsible for overseeing a herd of 300 cows (many purchased from Berry). “Berry helped me the most by giving me the hands-on skills I needed to be able to go directly into a management position without having to spend years in the field learning those skills,” says Micah, an animal science major making big tracks in the agricultural world!