Ag teacher talks educational benefits thanks to program
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Hampton FFA members including, from left, Laramie Elliott, Kylee Young, Shayna Klute, Alana Wiarda, Trey Klieir and Edward VanLandingham stand near Wally, the cow, in his pen the day before he was to be processed in Henderson. The beef will be used to supplement the school’s lunch program.
Wally, the first cow to be raised from birth to two years old at Hampton Public School, was processed in a USDA-inspected facility in Henderson Feb. 23, offering a valuable lesson to students as to where meat comes from.
According to HPS ag teacher and FFA advisor Joel Miller, Wally was the first cow at HPS to be processed for beef in school lunches, providing as well a learning opportunity for students participating in FFA and in the HPS ag program.
“We fed out some steers that came from a feedlot or what have you, but this was the first one where we bought this cow and she calved here at school,” Miller said. “So it’s a full cycle from birth to end.”
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