George B. Caine Teaching and Research Center
After graduating high school, George Caine enrolled in the Agricultural College of Utah (now Utah State University). At ACU he studied animal husbandry and graduated with a bachelor’s in 1912. Later that year he enrolled in the University of Missouri, and by 1914 had earned a master’s in animal husbandry. In 1915, George returned to the Agricultural College of Utah and became a faculty member. He also organized and oversaw the college’s first dairy herd. This involved constructing a dairy barn on campus, obtaining the forty-head herd of both Holstein and Jersey cattle and caring for and studying the cattle. In 1918, George was made head of the college’s Dairy Industry Department, a position he held until his retirement 1955.
In January 1986 Utah State University’s dairy herd was moved to a new facility in Wellsville, Utah. This dairy farm was designated as the George B. Caine Teaching and Research Center in George’s honor. The Caine Teaching and Research Center is among the nation’s leading dairy production research centers. Work includes studies of animal nutrition and reproduction, waste-handling, animal health and irrigated pasture for intensive rotational grazing. The center is also home to classrooms and a teaching herd used in the university’s dairy herdsman certification program.
*Note: All bios are current and up-to-date as of Summer 2022.