2014 Kerr Center Interns

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2014 livestock intern Kalyn Williams is from Waldron, Arkansas. She majors in Ag Business and Animal Science as a junior at Arkansas Tech.

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Profiles of the two Kerr Center interns in summer 2014

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2014 livestock intern Kalyn Williams is from Waldron, Arkansas. She majors in Ag Business and Animal Science

as a junior at Arkansas Tech.

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She is writing a paper on how

rotational grazing affects herd health.

She grew up on a cattle ranch, and hopes to have a small cattle and horse farm in the

future.

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2014 horticulture intern Connor

McClelland is from San Diego, California.

He is a senior soil science major at Kansas State.

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During his internship, he is experimenting

with different intercropping methods...

...as well as with with different soil

amendments for alternative means of

soil fertility.

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After graduation, he will take a shipment of donated tools to Haiti, where he will work to

help train Haitian farmers in sustainable

agriculture.