Students get look at agriculture during Bandera Ag Day

Over 200 fourth-grade students from the Bandera and Medina school districts participated in the annual Ag Day, sponsored by the Bandera County Farm Bureau, on Thursday, April 30.

Students rotated through a dozen stations to learn about agriculture in Bandera County and across Texas. Speakers representing a wide range of agricultural fields explained their work and demonstrated techniques used in production.

Steve Braneke, a representative of Southwest Dairy Farmers — an alliance of dairy farmers across Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina — gave a milking demonstration with his cow, Lola. Braneke entertained students with a series of jokes while explaining the process.