UW–Madison: From cattle farmer to college freshman – Bucky’s Pell Pathway eases the way

MADISON — As the sun begins to set on an August evening, Emma Mason strides onto a glowing pasture on her family’s farm near Mineral Point, Wisconsin, and shouts to her three younger siblings, “Who’s bangin’ buckets tonight?” Ben, 14, jumps off his four-wheeler, grabs two five-gallon pails, and starts bashing them together. “That’s the dinner bell for cows,” Mason says. Dozens of black Angus pureb...