Fall 2025

From the desk of Francis Fluharty

Dear animal and dairy science friends,

One of the things I want to explain in this article is the size and scope of the department. Training students in Animal and Dairy Science requires hands-on, experiential learning, as well as access to production farms for research and graduate education.

The farms we manage are our laboratories for production research, graduate education, and undergraduate teaching. We hire 50 to 70 undergraduates per year to help run our Athens operations. Many of these students have no prior experience working with farm animals or in a meat processing facility, so we rely on our dedicated farm and facility managers to do the training.

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