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Cary Crow was raised on a commercial cow/calf operation located in the flint hills of NE Kansas.  He is a graduate from Kansas State University in Animal Science and was a member of the 1996 National Champion Livestock Judging team.  Cary went on to graduate school at Missouri State University, receiving his masters in Beef Reproductive Physiology.  While in graduate school he coached the livestock judging team at Missouri State to its highest National Contest finish in the schools history. 

After school, he began working with two jointly owned companies based out of Texas.  Camp Cooley Ranch is one of the very largest seedstock producer in the US and winner of the prestigious Beef Improvement Federation “producer of the year” award several years ago.  Cary implemented an integrated cattle feeding, harvesting, and data transfer program that has since grown to feeding over 30,000 head of cattle annually and is an important program drawing customers to their annual sales.  This program, called the Producer Revenue Enhancement Program, has also helped to improve the overall carcass characteristics in both the herds of Camp Cooley and their customers.  In 2002 Cary took over management of the sire services division of Ultimate Genetics.  Ultimate Genetics is the largest bovine genetic company in the southern US.  The growth of the sire services division more than doubled from an overall revenue standpoint while under his leadership.  Ultimate genetics is now noted as one of the highest quality semen collection facilities in the country. 

Cary is a life-time member of the American Simmental Association.  He has served as a board member for the Texas Simmental/Simbrah Association and also served on the Custom Collections Committee of the National Association of Animal Breeders. He currently coaches the livestock judging team and is a professor of animal science and agribusiness at Coffeyville Community College in Kansas.  For the last 17 years he has maintained a small herd of registered Simmental cattle in which he sells performance breeding stock and show prospects.