DAIRY ST R Special Edition
Celebrating 56 Years of South Dakota Dairy Princesses
A year of teaching and learning Emily Jungemann uses appearance on America’s Heartland to teach the world about dairying By Jerry Nelson Staff Writer WOLSEY, S.D. – To say that Emily Jungemann has been busy during the past year would be the pinnacle of understatement. Emily, 21, has been a full-time pre-veterinary student at SDSU. She also helps out at her family’s 450-cow, 1,000-acre dairy farm whenever possible and in her spare time works as a veterinary assistant at Huron Veterinary Clinic. And as if all that weren’t enough, she has spent the past 12 months serving as South Dakota’s 55th Dairy Princess. Emily is the daughter of Russell and Janet Jungemann and was crowned the 2010 South Dakota Dairy Princess during a ceremony held March 31 at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. “Being Dairy Princess has been a real learning experience,” Emily said. Emily’s role as Dairy Princess was to serve as goodwill ambassador for the state’s dairy industry and to educate the public about the goodness of dairy. But she often found that she was the one who was learning. “I knew all I really needed to know about being Dairy Princess from growing up on a dairy farm,” she said. “During the past year, I learned a lot about the processing side of our in-
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A film crew from America’s Heartland came to Lazy J Dairy in July 2010. They spent a day filming Emily Jungemann and her family while they went through their daily routine of chores, milking and caring for their animals.
dustry. I also discovered how ignorant many people are about dairying. This is surprising, given that South Dakota is such a rural state.” During her dozens of visits to classrooms around the state, Emily fielded innumerable questions from schoolchildren and their teachers. Turn to Jungemann/ Page 2
Recent South Dakota Dairy Princesses
Stephanie Vostad Mattson Volga
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2010
Jenna Mueller Buyck Big Stone City
Katie Norling Beresford
Stephanie Nussbaum Garretson
Ana Schweer Watertown
Emily Jungemann Wolsey