MSU IAT Montcalm

Meet Logan Anderson who will be starting his second year at MSU IAT Montcalm Community College . Logan spend this summer working for SDG Precision Ag and Custom Farming which is an Agribusiness based in New Era, Michigan. During his time at SDG, Logan was able to operate equipment and participate in service calls when farmers were having issues with their precision equipment.

For his internship project, Logan and a fellow intern worked to organize, and inventory the company’s technological parts. To maintain the inventory, they categorized all of the inventory in the computer where it could be scanned out so SDG knows what they have in stock.

Since Logan is from an apple farm it was interesting for him to see the incredible agri-diversity of the different farms across western Michigan in both size and commodities grown.

Meet MSU IAT summer intern, Andrew Lombard. Andrew is starting his second year in the program later this month at Montcalm Community College . This summer he is working at Huyck Crop Specialties out of Ithaca where he helps to scout about 7,000 acres weekly. Lombard scouts fields such as corn, soybeans, wheat and about 10% of the state’s canola.

and partnered to create a hands on, engaging Kids Day booth at the where kids got to Make stress balloons, race pigs, and dig in corn for prizes. Both MCC and MSU IAT support the work our community fairs do to allow youth to showcase their accomplishments.

It’s fair season. It was fun to see graduate, Sidney Ives compete in as the pro with IAT sophomore Raegan Falor at the Pro Am contest at the Montcalm County Fair.

It’s Internship Season for . Lily Earnst from the IAT program is scouting for Main Farms this summer. Each IAT student will have a professional internship before graduation ensuring they are career ready in two years.

Earlier this week, Agriculture students, Raegan, Elizabeth, and Nicole travelled to Ferris State to represent at their MACARO college fair. If you are interested in more information how you or someone you know can study agriculture in one of many IAT programs, DM us and we can share with you how you can become a Montcalm Spartan.

What a great way to celebrate graduates. This group of future agricultural professionals will make such an impact during their professional careers. So we celebrated them style.

Brook Mudry and Elizabeth Sonday who are freshmen at the location traveled to Kansas City last week. They participated in the Animal Institute in Kansas City. At the conference, they were able to tour industry leading farms, learn from experts, and network with their over 100 of their peers from universities across the country.