Growing up on her family’s farm in Carroll County, Missouri, Shelby Davies Jenkins experienced the agricultural way of life from her earliest days.
Now a University of Missouri Extension livestock specialist, Jenkins cherishes those early farm memories.
“I grew up on a diversified row crop and beef cattle operation,” she says. “I was around it from an early age. Some of my earliest memories are checking cows with Dad before I went to preschool.”
She also showed animals at fairs while growing up. With those experiences, she grew interested in a career in livestock.
“I knew early on that livestock was my passion,” Jenkins says. “That was a big part of my childhood.”
After high school at Braymer, she decided to study animal science in college at the University of Missouri. She initially had ideas of becoming a veterinarian, but as part of her studies she took a Careers in Animal Science class.
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