“Standing in Jesse Hall’s field, Joe and I exchanged that familiar look — the one we’ve shared with several South Dakota producers — because once again someone was demonstrating a truth that runs against the old playbook: you don’t fix water problems with tillage; you fix them with biology.”

Step behind the lens to explore South Dakota’s grasslands and the ranch families restoring them, one sunrise, one pasture, and one story at a time.

we still have much more to share on the tillage conversation — and this piece offers a timely refresher before we dive deeper into the economics of rotation and soil resilience.