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Three generations of the family showing dairy cattle: Royal Selken at the South Dakota State Fair in 1960s; Heidi Zwinger at the South Dakota State Fair in 1988; and Brody Ahlquist at the Sioux Empire Fair in 2019. Heidi is pictured with Simone and Brody is pictured with Muffin, a great-granddaughter of Simone. They are descendants of some of the registered cows that Royal’s family bought in the 1960s.
need to be conquered in order to start or expand livestock facilities in a county. “At Ag United, we’re passionate about promoting agriculture,” she said. The organization is a coalition of farm organizations who pool checkoff and non-checkoff dollars to fund consumer and regulatory outreach. “When we think about the modern farm, big doesn't mean it’s bad. In fact, sometimes when I look back at what we did when we milked cows here, compared to how the cows are cared for at a place like Boadwine Dairy now, it’s just so much nicer of a place to be. There is better temperature control and ventilation, and there’s just more people there to take better care of cows.” Ag United Executive Director Steve Dick recruited Heidi to be the outreach director in fall 2020 because he valued what he’d seen in her as a volunteer giving tours of Boadwine Dairy and working with the Adopt-A-Farmer program. “Consumers are now getting two or three generations away from the farm,” Heidi said. “People don’t understand the amount of work that’s entailed, the amount of risk farmers are at from the markets and weather; and the investment of time, capital and technology.” Heidi’s ability to tell the story of farming and agriculture probably started at the Sioux Empire Fair and the State Fair 30-some years ago when she was tending cattle in the dairy barn and consumers would come by to see the cattle. Their questions provided the gateway for her to tell the story of
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