Sam Middleton

17,000 acres

Yearly 5000 to 6000 head of stocker cattle

Dad, Brother, and 2 employees

Normal Day starts at 6 a.m. and can end as late as midnight

Feed, water, check fence, and get on tractor

Receive 100 head every 2 weeks on average

Sam is more like a partner than an employee

"Everybody's got their job" "We have a pretty good system"

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Always went to Tech football and basketball games

Uncle, Marty Middleton, Tech profesor

Brother coming to tech in fall 2019

Most of the family graduated from Tech

Grew up on farm

"I just love being out there"

Wants to go home and carry on the tradition

"I always knew i wanted to go back home and farm"

Cattle brand "7" 7 is a biblical number

Family is very close and important to Sam

Rain or shine, starting the day early is just a way of life in the small town of Happy in the panhandle of Texas. A normal day doesn't consist of sitting behind the desk, for some it means feeding and watering cattle, checking fences, and putting in 5 hours on a tractor before lunch.

I plan to portray Sams experience in PSS and how it is going to help him when he graduates and moves home to his families farm and stocker cattle operations

85 miles North of Lubbock

Small town

Great grandad started farming operation

Graduated Happy High School in 2016

Favorite class - Weed Sciences Dr. Dotray

Weed management and chemical application

Learning actual skills related to his family farming operation

"Its going to be useful down the road with the technology and crops changing"

Junior Crop Science PSS major

Small town feel

Graduates May 2020

Advisor - Robert Right

"Its giving me useful information I can take home and apply"

I plan to take a few portraits of Sam in and around the PSS building. I also think a few portrait shots of Sam on or around farm equipment might be good, as well as pictures of he and his cattle