Poplar Bluff, Missouri - O’Neal Librarian Ashley Robertson was recently awarded $250 through the Missouri Farm Bureau Federation’s Ag in the Classroom program designed to walk students through the cow to plate process.

Under the grant entitled You Scream, I Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream: Cow to Ice Cream, third graders will learn about how beef and dairy products are processed. Robertson further noted: “Students will have the opportunity to turn ice cream to butter. The final project will involve eating ice cream to celebrate what we have learned.”

Supplementary to the unit of study, the elementary school is receiving weekly updates about the growth of a calf and the dairy farm it lives on through an adoption program of the St. Louis District Dairy Council.

Pictured: Michael Gross, Butler County Farm Bureau president, presents Ashley Robertson with a check in October.

Photo and article submitted by Tim Krakowiak, Communications/Marketing Director, Poplar Bluff R-I School District