Michael is a sixth-generation farmer that sells farm, home, auto, life and crop insurance in South Central Ohio at Vallery & Dorn Insurance. He graduated from Madison Plains high school in 1987 and Clark State in 1989 and went back to the farm to continue farming with his father. He took over his uncle's insurance agency in 2001 and started selling multi-peril crop insurance. He currently farms with his father and three sons near Sedalia, Ohio.