Students grow crops, raise livestock at working farm

Water drips from a steer's soaked hair as it's washed at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

Ella Rauch rinses off her steer Clyde at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

A recently-sheared lamb looks out from a pen at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

Kaydence Carlisle rinses off her lamb Frankie at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

Glacier High School student Ariah Thomas takes a break from fixing a motor on a water irrigation system to talk about some of the work she was hired to do at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center working farm while school is out for summer on Tuesday, June 22, 2021. Thomas is one of three students hired to keep up the farm while school is out for summer. (Scott Shindledecker/Daily Inter Lake)

Ariah Thomas, left, and Hollie Estey wash the wool of Dutch, a Hampshire cross lamb, before it is sheared at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

Nya Barber Castro grooms her steer Rocco at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)

Hollie Estey and instructor Brian Bay shear a lamb at the H.E. Robinson Agricultural Education Center in Kalispell on Tuesday, June 29. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)