NCTC Farm & Ranch Division

As the spring semester comes to a close, here’s a look at what our students did during their last week of classes - practicing their suture skills on banana peels!

Good luck to all our NCTC students on finals this week! As the spring semester comes to a close, we’re hoping all our students can give it their all and finish on a high note.

This week’s student spotlight is Bill! Bill has been in ag for a year and a half, and at NCTC for two. He changed his major to Farm & Ranch Management to learn about farming. He’s worked at the Cooke County Boys and Girls Club for two years and loves helping others. He isn’t sure what he wants to do after graduation, but wants to keep helping and learning!

Thank you Fischer's Meat Market for allowing us to tour today! Fischer’s was kind enough to offer us a tour through their meat processing facilities, so today Farm & Ranch students were able to observe the process from start to finish. A great way to end the semester!

This week’s student spotlight is Ryan! This is Ryan’s first semester at NCTC. He currently works as a government contractor. He doesn’t have any background in agriculture, but in the future wants to start a bison ranch as well as continue working with his criminal justice background in the US forest service.

Today, students in the Animal Reproduction class practiced palpating and vaccinating cows (and then took a long shower afterwards). They checked for pregnancy, gave the cows booster shots, and loaded one up to go to the sale barn.

Today, students in the Animal Health class practiced banding bull calves, giving vaccines, and tagging. They’ve improved quite a bit this semester!

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This week’s student spotlight is Karsyn! Karsyn is finishing up her 4th semester at NCTC. Karsyn showed goats in high school, and her parents raise Angus and Longhorn cattle. After graduation, she plans to transfer to SFA to get her bachelor’s in agribusiness, eventually run her own herd of goats, and become a ranch manager.

Today, students practiced wrapping wounds on horses. They practiced on each other in the classroom first, before trying it on the animals. Proper wound care is an important skill to have!

Say hello to Ruby! The results are in, and Ruby is the winner of last week’s naming contest. Thank you Christine Sandmann for the name suggestion!

This week’s student spotlight is C**t! C**t is currently taking his degree a couple classes at a time, and once he graduates he will continue to work at his family farm. His family runs a small farm in east Texas. They grow fruit, vegetables, raise chickens, and have had cattle in the past. C**t also does beekeeping! He started at NCTC so he could learn how to expand current operations, and some better ways to grow his farm.