About


Teaching kids about the dairy industry is one of our priorities. Our Mobile Dairy Classroom is a traveling milking parlor, featuring a live cow and an oral presentation. Our trained instructors will demonstrate how to milk a cow, describe how milk goes from the farm to the consumer, and then answer questions from the audience. This is an innovative program that brings the dairy experience directly to children. At schools, students and teachers share an experience that includes math, science, health (nutrition), and agriculture, all presented in an outdoor classroom format. Mobile Dairy Classroom instructors can adapt their presentations for kids from pre-kindergartners through high school. The program is free for schools, fairs, festivals, libraries, camps, day cares, and just about anywhere. During 2005 our 11 Mobile Dairy Classrooms made presentations to about 550,000 children in school settings and another 225,000 kids at fairs, festivals, and livestock shows. The Mobile Dairy Classroom is a division of the Southwest Dairy Museum, Inc., a non-profit, educational program funded by dairymen across the southwest.

Each Mobile Dairy Classroom Program includes:
  • A 30- to 45-minute oral presentation (depending on the age of audience) by a trained Instructor
  • Printed educational material for teachers and students
  • A milking demonstration
Instructors teach audiences:
  • Characteristics and anatomy of dairy cows
  • The importance of dairy foods for good health
  • The modern milking process
  • Modern environmental and food safety practices
The Mobile Dairy Classrooms are available year round to the Southwest Dairy Region. Currently, eight instructors cover the various regions of the State of Texas: 


           
  • Dennis Carr(Lubbock and West Texas).
  • Todd Griffin (DeLeon, Central Texas from Abilene to Ft. Worth, and Waco region).
  • Aaron Sanders (Talco, the top part of Northeast Texas from Dallas to Texarkana, and the Tyler area).
  • Clyde Holekamp (Comfort, the Hill Country from Del Rio to San Antonio, Sequin, and Austin).
  • Larry Graham (Huntsville, the North Piney Woods region, including Houston - Beaumont).
  • Robert Koonce (Tomball, the South Piney Woods region including Houston-Galveston area).
  • L. P. Voskamp (Houston area, West and Southwest Houston area)
  • Randy Miller (Edinburg and the entire valley region)
  • Our instructors in other states are:
  • Cody Lightfoot (New Mexico).
  • Ralph Keel (Oklahoma and parts of Kansas).
  • Michael Mann (Arkansas and parts of Missouri).
  • Matt Armbrester (Alabama).
Due to the popularity of this free program, advance scheduling is advised.

Click Here to schedule a Mobile Dairy Classroom presentation for your school. Be sure to make your request to the attention of the appropriate instructor in your region, which you'll find listed above.