It's been a long time in the making, but the newly renovated and expanded Dairy Science Department facilities at South Dakota State University in Brookings, S.D., are almost done.
Not only has it been 51 years since the last major update in the department, but it's also been 12 years since department head and professor Vikram Mistry and others embarked on the mission of improving the dairy microbiology building, classrooms, offices, manufacturing plant and the retail coffee and ice cream shop.
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