Your one-minute challenge to see what you know about keeping South Dakota’s grasslands healthy. Your one-minute challenge to see what you know about keeping South Dakota’s grasslands healthy. Resilience Rodeo - Testing Tools There are a number of tools/techniques producers can use to indicate healthy soils and healthy grasslands, but they are vastly underused. One very useful test of the health of your soil—whether on cropland or grassland—is the infiltration test. See if you can answer this question correctly and then click on the photo for the answer. Which is true about the infiltration test? It’s meant to detect invasive species that are infiltrating grasslands It can be complicated and time-consuming It’s meant to see for yourself how quickly rainfall will infiltrate into your soil rather than run off your land It’s a good test but not meant to compare one field to another Enter details to submit answer First Name Last Name Email I heard about this from: Submit! The Testing Tools challenge is brought to you by Growing Resilience Through Our Soils in partnership with the South Dakota organizations below.

These podcasts are all about helping ranchers and cropland managers maximize soil health to deliver profitable farming and ranching and well as soil resilience. Special guests include Ray Archuleta, and many others.

Test your soil health knowlege and enter in to recieve a $25 giftcard every week! Test your soil heath IQ! Take The South Dakota SOIL HEALTH CHALLENGE CHALLENGE QUESTION Farmers and ranchers who mob graze say this about weeds: We don’t call anything a weed; it just needs the right animal to eat it What we did call a weed actually has nutritional value We want to keep something growing in the soil, even if some call it a weed All of the above Enter details to submit answer First Name Email Last Name Choose An Interest Submit Answer! Soil Health Challenges are brought to you throughout 2023-2024 by the organizations below.

All Posts Our Posts Partner Posts Resilience Rodeo 2 min Coming Soon: Insights From Dr. Fred Provenza, Livestock and Grasslands As part of our SoilHealthLabs podcast series, Joe Dickie and I sat down to talk with Dr. Fred Provenza, who helped us delve into the deep... 7 min Consulting The Next Generation: The New Paradigm of Ranching Culture Dan Rasmussen's family has been on their South Dakota ranch since 1914. As somebody with a family history in ranching, Dan has seen... 3 min Meeting Dr. Fred Provenza Again, For the First Time By Buz Kloot On Monday the 15th of July this year (2024), Joe Dickie and I got to talk to Dr. Fred Provenza (Professor Emeritus, Dept....

There’s Nothing Here... We can’t find the page you’re looking for. Check the URL, or head back home. Go Home

There’s Nothing Here... We can’t find the page you’re looking for. Check the URL, or head back home. Go Home

There’s Nothing Here... We can’t find the page you’re looking for. Check the URL, or head back home. Go Home