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🔥College students—want to make next summer the best one yet?🐂Looking for an opportunity to work with beef cattle? The I-...
11/25/2025

🔥College students—want to make next summer the best one yet?
🐂Looking for an opportunity to work with beef cattle?

The I-BELIEF Internship 2026 is now accepting applications for undergraduate students!
Build your beef cattle skills with hands-on experience and get ready for the next step in your professional journey.

📅Applications Due: Dec 5

👇Full details and application link in the comments!
Illinois Beef Association WIU School of Agriculture University of Illinois Department of Animal Sciences University of Illinois Beef Cattle Extension

This week was spent at the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center’s Beef Day, and in Champaign wrapping up the summer with ou...
08/03/2025

This week was spent at the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center’s Beef Day, and in Champaign wrapping up the summer with our capstone event. As the summer is coming to an end, I have had some time to look back at all of the opportunities and experiences I have gotten to take part in. I am extremely grateful for this summer experience. I can’t wait to see how everyone’s projects come together this fall!

-Kylee

What a summer! As we wrap up this week I’ve been putting together a presentation about what I did this summer. It’s been...
07/31/2025

What a summer! As we wrap up this week I’ve been putting together a presentation about what I did this summer. It’s been awesome reflecting on all the cool things I got to do and experience. Working cattle, writing for extension, and conducting my own research project gave me so much appreciation for this industry and everything that flows into it. Yesterday we headed back down to DSAC for field day where we got to listen to several speakers. Today everyone is back in Champaign as we begin our summer capstone. For fun, I added some of my favorite photos from the summer! I had so much fun and I’m excited to see everyone for our fall workshop!

- Mabry

The highlights of this week were definitely the freeze branding and motocross! We started this week in Dixon Springs for...
07/25/2025

The highlights of this week were definitely the freeze branding and motocross! We started this week in Dixon Springs for a tour on Monday followed by a fun night at the Saline County Fair. Tuesday morning we got to learn how to freeze brand which was a first for me! We had such a good time at motocross Monday we attended it at our own Champaign county fair later in the week! -Meagan

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This week, we spent Monday and Tuesday at the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center. We took a tour of the farm, visited the...
07/25/2025

This week, we spent Monday and Tuesday at the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center.

We took a tour of the farm, visited the Saline County Fair, and learned how to freeze brand!

Can’t believe there’s only 1 week left!

—Gracie

Started this week off at DSAC with all the fellows, where we got a tour and helped freeze brand some of their remaining ...
07/25/2025

Started this week off at DSAC with all the fellows, where we got a tour and helped freeze brand some of their remaining heifers. We also took a trip to the local county fair down there. Now I am back at Orr Center working on regular chores for the rest of the week (it’s very wet over here). Be on the look out for my blog post coming next week. Hard to believe my time at Orr center is coming to an end so soon. I will head back to UIUC’s campus next Tuesday for our last few days of the program!

- Kavan

This week all of the interns came down to the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center to see what we have been up to all summe...
07/24/2025

This week all of the interns came down to the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center to see what we have been up to all summer. On Monday night, we all took a trip to the fair to watch motocross at the grandstands.

The rest of the week, I have spent time at the Saline County Fair showing my heifer and helping with Saline and Gallatin County Young Leaders at the grandstands every night. On Tuesday and Wednesday, I also participated in the truck pull, getting 3rd place Tuesday night and coming home with the win Wednesday!

- Kylee

What a great start to the week! The interns traveled to Dixon Springs for two days. We were able to tour the pastures an...
07/24/2025

What a great start to the week! The interns traveled to Dixon Springs for two days. We were able to tour the pastures and see what the girls there had been up to. We also weighed and branded cattle yesterday morning. It was really nice to get out of the office for a few days! It’s hard to believe we have just a week left in our summer experience.

-Natalie

We started off our last full week of work with a road trip down to Dixon Springs! Watching the cropland turn into rollin...
07/23/2025

We started off our last full week of work with a road trip down to Dixon Springs! Watching the cropland turn into rolling hills and trees outside my window was pretty scenery. Day one was spent in the bed of the truck exploring and getting a tour of the grounds. I had never seen a cow-calf operation of that size. On Tuesday morning we got to help the girls down there finish freeze branding heifers! We also made a pit stop at the Saline County fair to see the livestock and watch some motocross racing. This week Paige and I are wrapping up some of the last data collections for my project. I spent the afternoon centrifuging our VFA samples in preparation for the final hoorah tomorrow!

- Mabry

The other interns and I had a busy week of farm visits! It was fun to catch up with them and get to see where they have ...
07/23/2025

The other interns and I had a busy week of farm visits! It was fun to catch up with them and get to see where they have been working this summer. We even got to learn how to freeze brand yesterday while we were down at Dixon Springs. I’m back in Macomb now finishing up some projects before we head back to UIUC’s campus for our capstone next week.

-Sophie

First part of rotations was full of car time, farm tours and catching up with the other fellows. Looking forward to leav...
07/21/2025

First part of rotations was full of car time, farm tours and catching up with the other fellows. Looking forward to leaving for southern Illinois tomorrow morning! -Meagan

This week we spent a lot of time traveling to different beef farms, and we will continue to do so next week! I’m excited...
07/19/2025

This week we spent a lot of time traveling to different beef farms, and we will continue to do so next week! I’m excited to wrap-up my summer data collection!

—Gracie

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