The year was 1991. The air was cool for July as I stood on top of a tall butte with my father and Dwayne Breyer. The three
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As we start the spring semester at SDSU and a new year, I thought it appropriate to write about goal planning. Each year, I start my Ranch Management Planning course by reviewing the
Doug Sieck’s cows have grazed standing corn for the past four years. Terry Gompert and an Alberta Ag Youtube video introduced him to the idea.
Sieck researched the
In South Dakota, Demkota has two USDA labels, Demkota Ranch Black Angus and Demkota Ranch, each have the same requirements except that the Black Angus label has to
When Bart Carmichael moved to the family ranch two days after graduating high school, his grandfather ran cattle through four seasonal pastures. Bart
Larry and Julie Wagner run a grass-fed beef ranch in the Bijou Hills near Chamberlain, South Dakota. When I asked Larry where his interest in prairie conservation came from, he told me
Dust storms thick enough to hide semi trucks and flooded roads after heavy rains prompted Dean Lockner to convert his crop ground back to native range: “I really didn’t like what I saw. I decided I needed to plant something
Using funds from a Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) Grant along with financial support from the USDI – BLM’s Belle Fourche, SD Field Office, we conducted a targeted grazing exercise on an invader weed species known as Dalmation toadflax. SDSU Extension,
The cold snowy “spring” of 2018 will be remembered by many South Dakota cow calf producers as a night-mare calving season. Perhaps it’s time to think about calving later next year. Most proponents of later calving were influenced by Dr. Dick Diven, who published research in the early 1990’s advocating
Many consumers are increasingly drawn to organic foods because of perceived benefits to their health and the environment. In response to market signals, organic crop production is also increasing. Under current market conditions, it is easy to understand why some producers or landowners are considering organic