A little about me

Hey y'all.  Yes, I say y'all. No, I'm not from Texas, I'm Missourian through and through.  As you can guess, I like boots and jeans.  As a matter of fact, I hate sweatpants, except for the yoga pants I got in New York. 

Now, my journey in agriculture started when I was really young helping my grandpa, dad, and sister on a small farm in rural Missouri.  We have had bucket calves, chickens, guineas (strange looking poultry that love bugs), ducks, cows and a few bulls, and pigs over the years. Yup, we've had our own little petting zoo at times I guess. 
Well, high school came and I went through one of those phases.  I stopped listening to country music, I got a job in town, and I told myself I am leaving ag.  I need to apologize to myself for lying. 

The summer prior to my senior year, I changed my mind.  Next thing I knew, I was accepted into CAFNR at the University of Missouri-Columbia as an Agricultural Journalism undergrad.  I soon started up the country stations on my car stereo again and bought the first pair of boots that weren't hand-me-downs from my sister.  That was just because the last pair like that had more holes than my lace curtains.  Oh, and did I say they were Justin Gypsies?  Yup, with purple stitching too.  I love purple. 

Now one love went away and then another came along.  Tall.  Very tall.  Six foot six kind of tall.  Dark hair.  And a serious farmer.  3000 acres of row crops kind of serious.  Well, he made me reconsider a lot of things.  One of which was my major.  It was the last semester of my high school career and I cannot tell you how many evenings I spent looking up every ag degree at Mizzou and what those would mean to me. 

The one thing I remembered was that I love math and agriculture.  I thought long and hard and considered everything, including the fact that I really was fascinated by my mother's work as an accountant.  After hearing the presenters at career day talk about how useful an ag-business degree was, I was set.  I officially changed my major.

Here I am now, finished with my first semester in college.  I love Mizzou, but not the football, I left after half a game with Dad.  I have made great friends.  I know more now about supply and demand graphs than I thought you could or should know (Thanks, Applied Microeconomics and Dr. Dauve).  And, most of all, I am so proud to represent the best industry in the world.