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Ag is one of the state's top industries. It accounts for more than $10-billion dollars in economic activity, but each season brings a new challenge for even the most experienced farmers and ranchers.This time of year is usually the wettest in South Dakota, but instead, a two-year drought persists.
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Most livestock raised for meat consumption in South Dakota are not marketed direct to consumers. As recent as 2020 some 2.1 million-head of cattle and 7.8 million hogs are sold on contract or through an auction market to large processors.Although this is how most South Dakota livestock are marketed, a growing number of the farmers and ranchers who raise them, are cutting out the middleman.
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The Black Hills National Forest is working with stakeholders to protect and balance recreation, business, the environment and grazing land as it sees an explosion in off-road vehicle riders.
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Hemp processing also creates a byproduct. And a South Dakota State University student wonders if there’s a use for that byproduct in agriculture. Hemp is newly legal in South Dakota, and demand is growing. The non-intoxicating cousin of marijuana is useful in human food, fiber, and other products.
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At 81 Jim Woster is a longtime advocate for the people who make up South Dakota agriculture. He grew up on a Reliance crop and cattle farm and began working for the Sioux Falls Stockyards the morning after he graduated from South Dakota State University.
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Preparing a Resilient Future is a project aimed at helping more than 300 beginning farmers and ranchers across the Northern Great Plains explore raising organic field crops.
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A South Dakota man will spend seven-and-a-half years in federal prison and owe more than $24 million in restitution after orchestrating a "cattle Ponzi scheme."
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Man’s best friend can also be their best assistant. Mobridge ranch manager, David Dagley relies on a team of trained cowdogs to help him manage cattle on the 10,000-acre AC Land and Cattle ranch. He also trains his own cowdogs for competitions and for other ranchers.
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Parts of northwest South Dakota look much the same today as they did hundreds of years ago, with breathtaking expanses of grass, plains, buttes and…
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In The Moment … May 20, 2020 Show 821 Hour 1When Eliza Blue first came to South Dakota, she didn't think she would stay long. She was a city girl, a…