Discovering your passion early on in your life is often a struggle. Some kids want to be astronauts, and some want to race cars. But for Jacob Rausch, his family’s Hoven, South Dakota operation taught him that simply feeding cattle may be one of the most rewarding experiences in life.
Jacob Rausch, who helps at his family’s operation in Hoven, S.D., looks over cattle at South Dakota State University’s Cow-Calf Education and Research Unit, where he works during the school year.
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Jacob Rausch studies some of the feed in SDSU’s newest cow-calf unit. He will be working hands-on feeding cattle of his own during South Dakota Cattlemen’s Foundation’s Fed Cattle Challenge in 2019.
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