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Rich Knievel

Rich Knievel

Rich Knebel (listed as "Rich Knievel" in podcast credits), caretaker and manager of the Miracle of Life birthing center at the Dutchess County Fair's Salute to Agriculture tent in Rhinebeck, NY.

Sep 23, 2026

2:54
Yeah.
2:56
Um, 30 years, give or take.
3:01
It's incredible.
3:02
It's a long story from the beginning of my dad wanted milk vending machines in our local school to taking a cow around schools.
3:17
scaling that up and then eventually over the years presenting the birthing part of the of the equation the exhibit the exhibit becomes a miniature working dairy farm as time goes on once the cows calve they have to be milked you got your chores to do you got stuff to keep clean cows to feed doing all of this in front of the public And you want to teach them.
3:46
Over the years, it has really turned in a tool of some basic animal husbandry, livestock stewardship to the public, showing them.

13 MINS LATER

17:06
Knowing that this is the 180th year here in celebrating the fair, where do you see the future of the fair as far as education, kind of a legacy? I'm curious as to your perspective on that.
17:24
I hope the legacy and tradition of this fair continues.

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