Test your soil health knowlege and enter in to recieve a $25 giftcard every week! Test your soil heath IQ, and enter our drawing for a $25 digital gift card. Take The South Dakota SOIL HEALTH CHALLENGE First Name Last Name Email Choose An Interest CHALLENGE QUESTION Farmers and rachers 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 Submit! Soil Health Challenges are brought to you throughout 2023-2024 by the organizations below. We thank Publication Services, LLC for donating gift cards to help us promote soil health across South Dakota—your name and email will be used to notify you if you win a drawing, and will not be given to Publication Services.

Growing Resilience Through Our Soils exists to help ranchers and cropland managers maximize soil health to deliver farm and ranch resilience and profitability. This platform uses videos, photos, and words to showcase the trials and successes of ranchers and farmers as they continue along their soil health journeys. The mission of Growing Resilience Through Our Soils is to help ranchers and cropland managers maximize soil health to deliver profitable farming and ranching and well as soil resilience. This educational platform–led by passionate researchers and storytellers—uses videos, photos, and words to showcase the trials and successes of ranchers and farmers as they continue along their soil health journeys.

Healthy soils and healthy crops, mean healthy farmers and consumers, never mind an ever-improving environment. One idea we are embracing is that of Regenerative Farming where we embrace the idea that if farmers change the way they manage the soils, they can actually improve, or regenerate environmental conditions through less disturbance, keeping soils covered with residue or canopies, keeping live roots I the soil year round and be reintroducing animals into the whole system. Free Resources South Dakota Drought Tool Click here to access the South Dakota Drought Tool, then click on this icon to download the excel file. DROUGHT CONTINGENCY PLAN Q&A Click here to download! Bale Grazing Resources Drought Management Planning Click here to download the Drought Management Plan. DROUGHT MONITORING MAP Click here to view! NRCS GRASSLANDS PLANNER Click here to download the NRCS Grasslands for the 2022 season. Download South Dakota Drought Tool View / Download Drought Planning Fact Sheet View / Download Drought Contingency Plan Q&A View Map Drought Monitoring Map View / Download 2022 NRCS Grasslands Planner Cleaning Supplies BALE GRAZING FACTS Click here to download! Prescribed Burn Resources PRESCRIBED BURN FACTS Click here to download! BALE GRAZING Q&A Click here to download! PRESCRIBED BURN Q&A Click here to download! Remember The R's Click here to download! Click here to download! Remember The R's - Spread CONTACT US Profitable Farming - Profitable Ranching - Farming Community - Soil Heath - Bale Grazing South Dakota Drought Tool Drought Management Planning Click here to access the South Dakota Drought Tool, then click on this icon to download the excel file. Click here to download the Drought Management Plan. Drought Planning Resources

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....

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