To say the least this trip has been the most interactive, informative, and fun two credits I have ever earned! We all got to learn so many different aspects and perspectives of agriculture, all in a just a one week time frame. It was an amazing journey, and I loved the people I got to experience it with!
Let me briefly take you over my last two days there before my departure. Monday we spent our whole day in Lincoln Nebraska touring the University of Nebraska, and their agricultural sciences buildings.When we were on campus we also got to see the only tractor testing facilities in the western hemisphere and the history of how it got there. We also got to drive out to there huge facilities that house there animals and feed mills, we saw cow calf pairs, feeder steers in their own feed lot, their grain facilities, their hydraulic cattle shoot and some of the research they are currently doing out there. We ended that day with a tour of their football stadium and the facilities that are available to all their student athletes, all I can say about that is WOW!
Tuesday we started the day off at Claas Combines and their warehouse that put their combines and tractors together and test them before going out on market. It is the only one in the United States. That was unfortunately a little rushed because we had to make it to the Union Pacific head quarters back in Omaha so that we could sit in a board meeting made for us, it had all there leaders in agriculture related fields to be able to tell us what they do and specialize in. That was an awesome experience because it was great to be able to talk to them so directly! We then headed to the airport and departed back to where we all came from.
When it has all been seen, said, and done I would say that I have brought so much information back home with me, this was an experience of a life time, to be able to see and do all the things that we did. We didn’t only get to see things we cant here in the Northwest but also make connections that I can hopefully use when looking for internships, jobs or graduate school.
