MICHAEL DAVIS Hillsboro, Ala.
When his dad, George Davis Sr., right, suffered a heart attack, Michael Davis moved home and expanded the family’s cow-calf operation. Three generations now work on the farm.
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circle Drawn by family and heritage, Alabamian Michael Davis returns to his rural roots and builds a commercial cattle operation.
Alabama Farm Credit financed land, barns and equipment for Michael Davis and his family, enabling them to expand their commercial cowcalf operation.
a new high school graduate in 1988, Alabamian Michael Davis had one thought in mind: escape his family’s beef cattle operation as quickly as possible. “The very last thing I wanted to do was to stay in Hillsboro and live on a farm,” the Alabama Farm Credit customer admits. The farm, he says, dated back to his great-grandfather’s era in the 1940s. Back then, the operation focused mainly on row crops. His grandfather added poultry and dairy, eventually moving exclusively to beef and passing the operation down to Davis’ father, George Sr. “I appreciated my heritage,” Davis says. “I just didn’t want to work that hard.”
City Lights Lose Their Luster Despite his best efforts, the idea of small-town rural living kept calling him back. He earned his undergraduate and MBA degrees from Faulkner University and
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