2022 Dean's Award: Employee of the Year

Chad Joines

Chad Joines, the director of beef cattle operations, was named the 2022 College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Employee of the Year.

In his role as director of beef cattle operations, Joines directly manages the teaching herd of 100 purebred cows as well as the research herd of 200 Angus-based commercial cows. Overall, Joines cares for more than 600 cattle that form the basis of beef cattle teaching, research, and Extension in the college.

Joines’ work and expertise have been recognized by major breeding services as several bulls he has raised are now used to distribute VT genetics worldwide. This success in performance testing, the show-ring, and commercially helps showcase the beef production program at Virginia Tech.