The Board of Agriculture unanimously approved the rule changes Friday with the intent of limiting diseases officials believe can be carried in raw milk. Unpasteurized milk sold as pet food must now be dyed a charcoal-gray color and labeled as not for human consumption under a new rule approved Friday by the state Board of Agriculture. The charcoal color was chosen to clearly differentiate the product from standard milk and make raw milk unappealing to children. Raw milk advocates say the...

She also liked learning how cows produce milk and how the farmers milk the cows. You have 25 or 30 kids to a group, and you ask them how many have any background in agriculture and only two hands might go up. This gives them the chance to learn how cows are milked and where the milk comes from. Once food passes through a cow's first two stomachs - the rumen and recticulum - the cow reguritates the food and then chews it. Hundreds of fourth-graders from schools across the county learned how...

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With 33 years farming experience under his belt and an innovative spirit to guide him, Dan has become a leader to a new way of dairying. In this new location, the Middendorfs found all the features they wanted: A warm pasture for wintering cows, an irrigation system, and a house in the center of the property so the family is always near the cows. Dan and wife Rosie sold their original 150 acre farm in central Minnesota and relocated to the 160 acres of sandy soil that make up their present...

BEEF 2020 is designed to provide an intensive, hands-on educational opportunity to enhance the understanding of production and marketing of high quality, high value beef, Extension beef specialist Cody Wright said. You need not be a beef producer to attend this program. Search the Rapid City Journal. Workshop topics include evaluation of live market cattle; beef carcass grading and pricing; feeding and management strategies to improve carcass quality; genetic prediction of carcass merit;...