The South Dakota Grassland Coalition is making an exciting transformation with this year’s Annual Conference on December 5, 2024.

The Grazing Schools are designed to help ranchers implement improved grazing planning. Each 3 day school is led by experienced land managers and agency professionals.

American agriculture is in the beginning of one of the largest transfers of land and wealth in the nation’s history. Only 30% of family farms/ranches survive to the second generation. Twelve percent make it to the third and only 3% survive to the fourth generation.

The Aldo Leopold Award for Conservation has been given in South Dakota for 15 years now. The 2024 recip- ients are father and son duo Barry and Eli Little of Blioux River Ranch located northwest of Castlewood, SD. Blioux River Ranch is a diverse grain and livestock operation with decades...