The idea of a project at Langley to benefit the Massai people had always been in the back of his mind, he said, and the students have reinforced it and made it real. “The program is a very basic ...

not breathing cows. At any good state fair, there will be a fun part for the kids where they can either pet some farm animals, or learn how to milk a real cow. Big city kids don't often get that ...

“You see some kids that have dreaded being close to the animals the entire time and then once they start prepping for the fair, you see such a transformation,” Miller said. Th ...

It's the livestock area, where country kids toss a football in a dusty area between the cattle pens and cleaning areas. Other kids played in a mound of stored sawdust used throughout the fair's ...

WATERLOO, Iowa --- The Discovery Program at the National Cattle Congress Fair brings urban kids back to the farm. In the process they discover cute fuzzy baby chicks, big dairy cows and the gross ...

She credits the family and Weigel’s Steer Pit the success her kids had for many years while showing beef cattle. She and her husband, Randy Leahy, live near the Weigels. Olivia Leahy was 13 ...