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16 Jul 2018

88 visits

How to be a smart shopper?

A student from Dallas mentioned that there's a lot of cattle farming in her part of the country, but she didn't know how to make sure she was getting locally grown beef.

16 Jul 2018

102 visits

The students

Typical of the touring students are Kyla Allen of Glen Mills and Hannah Drexler from Lewisburg, both in Pennsylvania. They're 16 and will be juniors this fall in their respective high schools. Glen Mills is near Philadelphia, whihc Lewisburg is north of Lancaster.

16 Jul 2018

102 visits

These were a little older

This was an unsafe situation -- for me. Sows don't welcome intruders in their pens, near their newborn pigs.

16 Jul 2018

79 visits

These pigs were less than 48 hours old

The students seemed fascinated by sows and their newborn younguns. They learned that a litter might include the offspring of several boars.

16 Jul 2018

82 visits

Some had not been close to livestock before

Many made pictures to send home or post online.

16 Jul 2018

101 visits

They were high schoolers from many different places

Arriving at the farm, the touring students climbed from the modern, self-sustained bed-and-breakfast toward the pig pens.

14 Jul 2018

115 visits

Brute force

The person grabbing the Hell Betties jammer's shirt is one of her teammates, trying to pull her through.

14 Jul 2018

125 visits

Determination

This was an experiment to test the focus following of my new D500. Pretty impressive in this example.

14 Jul 2018

110 visits

Boxed in

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