Karly Reel

Intern

Karly grew up on a small grain and sheep farm in Mendota, Illinois. She has been showing sheep since she was four years old and has been an active Illinois Club Lamb Association member. Today, she contributes to the association by being a youth director. In this position, she helps with ideas for the direction of the association, planning events, and fundraising for the group to ensure that they can accomplish everything they want to within the year. Within the show ring, she has been competitive at both the state and national levels. Along with this, Karly has been a part of the North Stars 4-H club, the Mendota FFA chapter, and the LaSalle County livestock judging team, where she found her passion for livestock judging. Her childhood revolved around the livestock industry. By doing so, she made lots of valuable connections as well as learned lots of important lifelong skills. Her father was her biggest influence towards getting into the agronomy side of things. After taking an agronomy internship last summer, she has found that her career interests lie within agronomy. Karly got a full retail experience doing all things from scouting fields, working with salesmen, sorting seed, treating seed, and bagging fertilizer. She enjoyed problem-solving when challenges came up within a field. All in all, Karly loved that she gained such a broad spectrum of knowledge, helping her to pinpoint the direction she wants to go in the future. Now Karly is continuing her academic and livestock judging career at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield, IL. Her favorite thing about being a part of the livestock judging team is being able to travel the country and being able to make so many fun memories with her teammates. Within the school, she is also a part of the ag club, where she enjoys being able to connect with other kids who are a part of the agriculture program. All in all, the industry has given so much to Karly, and she wants to dedicate her life to giving back to it. She looks forward to having the opportunity to expand her knowledge with Integrated Seed Solutions.