Farm Management Club Spends Spring Break
Exploring Brazilian Agriculture

The Farm Management Club, accompanied by Dr. Bob Taylor and two departmental alumni, Ryan Johaningsmeier, B.S.'97, and Richard Halderman, B.S. '91, traveled to Brazil during Spring Break. The students wanted to better understand Brazil's future in agriculture.

The group began their journey with a day of relaxation including a moonlight river ride, spotlighting for crocodiles and venturing into the wetlands on horseback.
The agricultural tour began the next day and included visits to several different facilities: an 18,000 acre soybean, cotton and coffee farm; a 5900 acre cotton farm; a 23,000 acre soybean farm; a major cattle breeding farm; a hog and chicken operation; a John Deere dealership; and a seed research laboratory.

Eric Scholer, a senior in Agricultural Economics, summed up the trip for the club with this statement," The trip was an experience that none of us will ever forget. We would all enjoy the opportunity to go back to Brazil."

November 22, 2009

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