- So, yeah, so it's kind of funny, whenever I tell people I live at the swine unit they always say, "Oh, you live with the pigs."

And kind of because my house is attached to the barn and in the main barn is our farrowing house, which has our sows and piglets, and then our nursery, which has our piglets.

(peaceful music) My name is Hannah Williamson, I am 21 years old, and I have been around the Fresno State Swine Unit since I could walk pretty much.

And I've been working here a little bit in high school.

And then once I got to Fresno State and I became an actual student, I was hired on and had a lot of experience raising hogs, met a lot of people, made a lot of friends.

I am actually one of the managers here at the swine unit and the on-call, live-in student.

(upbeat music) So my dad wanted to really give me an experience of livestock and I was always interested in it.

Plus it's pigs and it's animals, and I've always been an animal person.

I remember just sitting in the passenger seat or sitting in my car seat and we'd drive through the unit like he always does and check on the pigs and talk to workers.

And I got to pretty much hang out with college students ever since I was a kid.

You know, livestock kids are really good kids.

They're very responsible and so they taught me a lot of responsibility and I got to see them work and stuff and see what it's like working on a swine unit.

They kind of helped me, you know, kind of grow up in who I am, you know.

And then my high school, I went to Buchanan, They never had ag and I could have done, I think it was like ROP, where you go to Clovis East or something and you do ag over there.

But I didn't have a car and, you know, so I just didn't have the resources to get over there and take out of classes and be in the FFA.

But, you know, I grew up around here and that was honestly enough for me.

Growing up around here, you know, helping raise hogs and even being around all the other units and knowing all the other professors, it kind of helped me, shaped me into who I am today.

(upbeat music) So Fresno County is the number one ag county in California and we are very heavily based in ag and all up and down the Central Valley, even on the coast.

The Central Valley is very, very, very heavily ag and very proud of ag and that's something that all of us take a lot of pride in is we're just so heavily based in it.

We're growing our own food and that's where we came from.

That's our roots is, you know, we grew our own food and to this day that's what we're doing and that's what we're doing for the Valley.

And it's important to feed everybody and so we take a lot of pride in that.

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