12-17 IAT Dairy School
An Idaho statesman articleReported that “Following an undercover video showing Idaho dairy workers mistreating cows, state schools are teaming up with the industry to offer classes on how to handle animals. The University of Idaho Extension, along with the College of Southern Idaho, will be offering the program beginning in October following pilot testing. I talked to Terry Patterson, College of Southern Idaho instructional dean: “This started long before that, David, CSI, the University of Idaho extension and the Idaho Dairymen Association began a couple of years ago looking at bringing some training modules to the industry employees. The first one we piloted was basically a milker level I training and we have four or five different pieces that we like to schedule as training modules beginning with the first one which is our first rollout and animal welfare model. Is this in Spanish too? Yes, Spanish, English and other languages.”
