Lived experience is perhaps the most valuable way to learn.
South Dakota Junior Beef Ambassadors gather in Clark at Dakota Butcher for training in June. Pictured is Barrett Butzer, back left, Jennings Pazour, Ladd Pazour and Kolt Johnson; Fidelia Rasmussen, front left, Weston Grace, Elliot Johnson, Baylor Pazour and Ned Pazour.
South Dakota Junior Beef Ambassadors learn how beef is broken down into a different cuts of meat at Dakota Butcher in Clark this past summer.
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Junior Beef Ambassador Taylor Harriman of Parker, S.D., left, poses with kids and their cow basket project after teaching them about beef in at a local Boys & Girls Club.
Weston Grace feeds heifers on his family’s farm near Humboldt, S.D. As a South Dakota Junior Beef Ambassador, Grace is sharing what he knows about raising and showing cattle while learning to advocate for the beef industry.
Weston Grace gives some love to his show heifer, Lucy.
Janelle Atyeo is a small town South Dakota girl enjoying her work as regional editor of the Midwest Messenger and Tri-State Neighbor while raising kids and no-till vegetables in central Sioux Falls. Reach her at janelle.atyeo@lee.net.





