"Dairy Days"

Thursday was "Dairy Days" at the Clark County Fairgrounds. Hannah's class planned a field trip out there to see the farmers and cows and learn all about milk and dairy products. One of the parents from her class last year drives a milk truck by profession, so he brought the truck to school so the kids could see how the milk gets from the dairy to the store.

He showed them the hose he uses to get the milk from the milking house into the truck.

This is a farmer teaching the kids how they care for their cows. They learned about how they give them pills and shots and tag them to keep track of them.

This man works for Land O'Lakes. He is a cow nutritionist. He visits the dairies and helps the farmers design the best food for their cows. He showed the kids what kinds of things cows like to eat, and told them cows are great recyclers because they eat things that are left from when we process our own food.

This was the best part...ICE CREAM!