For more than 30 years, the Dickinson State University Agriculture Club brings the farm into the city every spring to offer children from preschoolers to third graders a unique opportunity to learn about agriculture.
DSU hosts Dakota Community Bank & Trust Bull Team Challenge
More than 80 of the best bucking bulls ventured to Dickinson this past weekend to compete in the Dakota Community Bank & Trust Bull Team Challenge. Written By: Jackie Jahfetson | ×
Parker Breding, of Edgar, Mont., holds on for 8 seconds on a bucking bull Friday evening during the Dakota Community Bank & Trust Bull Team Challenge hosted at Dickinson State University s Indoor Arena. (Jackie Jahfetson/The Dickinson Press)
Knocking off the dirt from his rope with a brush, a 28-year-old bull rider from South Dakota, who’s trying to climb the PBR circuit, then pulls out a clear-plastic sandwich bag holding a palm-sized brownish gem which is coined as rosin. What is also known as rodeo glue to bull riders, the rosin helps a rider grip the rope that goes under the bull. The cowboy cuts a piece into his glove and uses a lighter to warm the solid rosin into a sticky paste. Then he fervently appl