At Wedge Tent Ranch near Faith, SD, Bart Carmichael shows how adaptive grazing, humor, and humility can turn harsh prairie country into a thriving, resilient landscape.

Cover Crop Mix In early September 2013, just before the Atlas storm swept across the Dakotas, I met Dr. Mark Liebig at the USDA-ARS laboratory in Mandan, North Dakota. He handed me a single laminated sheet — the now-famous Cover Crop Chart  — a visual guide to plant diversity that still feels timeless, like a periodic table for living systems. Each square on that chart represented not just a species but a function in the soil ecosystem. I’d first encountered the idea of crop

Pete Bauman In the Field In July's Our Amazing Grasslands   video , courtesy of SD Grassland Coalition, we marveled at the hidden value...