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 holistic goal concept developed by Allan Savory in his book “Holistic Management: A New Framework for Decision Making”. Spending time thinking about …
[et_pb_section bb_built=”1″][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.17.6″] Are you looking for ways to increase your profitability? Are you curious about Holistic Management? Have you been wondering how to implement small steps on your farm or ranch? Come to our 2019 Holistic Management Roadshow! We have locations across South Dakota from January 7th through the 11th. Each event …
“Grasslands are not the poor land, it’s not the wasteland, this is an ecosystem that is by far the most important ecosystem we have in North America and yet it is disappearing at extraordinary rates.” -Tracy Rosenberg In our final video release of 2018, Tracy Rosenberg explains the importance of grassland ecosystems and the steps …
SHARING RANGELAND KNOWLEDGE By Mary A. Scott The 2018 Rosebud Area Youth and Adult Range Workshops were held on Tuesday, July 31st in a pasture near Rosebud, SD. Attendees in the Adult Workshop started out the morning with the Tabletop Rainfall Simulator showing runoff and infiltration from different samples of local native range plant …
Story by Cory Neuharth, Range Tech (Weeds). Photos by Cory Neuharth and Jen Schneider, Range Tech (Weeds). This was a first for a project of this kind within the South Dakota Field Office. The weeds program coordinator had been thinking about this type of treatment option on noxious weeds for a few years, …
South Dakota Field Office “targets” noxious weeds with grazing project by Cory Neuharth Read More »
A joint effort from USDA-ARS, Colorado State University, the National Drought Mitigation Center, University of Arizona, and the Northern Plains Climate Hub have come up with a forage prediction tool called ‘Grass-Cast’. It takes historic forage production data sets and climate predictions from NOAA to make forage forecasts. This is a useful drought planning tool. …
