SDSU Extension helps first responders train for crashes involving livestock

BROOKINGS – The first time Brandon Wingert responded to a vehicle accident involving livestock was in 2017 when a livestock trailer with 99 cattle tipped over. They successfully recovered all but four of the cattle, but Wingert, Hanson County’s sheriff and emergency manager, never forgot the incident.

A few years later, Fulton-area cow/calf producer Kay Miller sent him an article about the Bovine E…