"Â I'm afraid we're never going to be particularly good at letting go and sending them off with a smile."
- Lainie Kringen-Scholtz
Do you remember when the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the COVID vaccine and conditional use of COVID treatments during the outbreak? The FDA does the same thing with animal products amidst outbreaks. The new world screwworm outbreak in Mexico has the U.S. Department of Agricul…
Producers are urged to watch their cattle herds, especially cattle imported from other states, after Theileria, a tick-borne parasite that affects cattle, was detected in several Nebraska counties. The Asian longhorned tick is the primary carrier responsible for spreading the parasite.
- Jaclyn Wilson
"A couple fancy ballerina leg raises, and I quickly am fully aware that I’m too old for this junk."
- Janelle Atyeo
Farmers are choosing not to plant their fields to cash crops that require high dollar inputs and bring ever smaller returns. Instead, they’re seeding the land back to the plants that grew before settlers began to turn dirt with plows.
- Janelle Atyeo
For a plant that grows naturally on the Midwest prairies, significant effort goes into starting native grasses and flowers in a greenhouse.
- Jim Woster
"Brother Terry is handy, and probably for a couple reasons. He was called upon by the brothers to help in the shop while I was on a tractor."
- By Amy Hadachek, for the Midwest Messenger
More moisture is indicated for the Central Plains for the last week of May, according to the latest forecast from the Climate Prediction Center issued Thursday, May 21.
- Janelle Atyeo
Hemp processors in South Dakota and Iowa are investing in new building-block facility they hope will give farmers a local market and build environmentally friendly homes.Â
- Janelle Atyeo
South Dakota farmers just put a lot of money in the ground.
- Michael Baron
Dear Michael: We read your last column where you talked about a life estate on land owned is not subject to probate costs. You also mentioned it was not subject to Medicaid attachment should we need to go to a nursing home and run out of money there.
- Katelyn Winberg
On a regular Monday in April, when the average person was at work or school, millions of dollars changed hands before lunch in a sale barn in southeastern South Dakota.
- By Sara Bauder, SDSU Extension
Dry spring weather across much of South Dakota has brought up some producer questions and inquiries about covering soils or extending the grazing or forage season with annual forages or cover crops. Below is a list of considerations to take into account if the spring and summer continue to be dry.
- Janelle Atyeo
SDSU's crop performance program helps farmers see how crop varieties stack up.
- Jim Woster
"If your grandma is still with you, why not make any day Mother’s Day whenever possible. You will be glad that you did, and she even more so."
- Kristen Sindelar
Ag-focused research is coming to the heartland of agriculture with the organizational restructuring of certain parts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
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Producers are invited to register for the 2026 University of Minnesota Cover Crop Field Day: Setting up for Success at the Southwest Research and Outreach Center by Lamberton Thursday, June 25.
- Jaclyn Wilson
"I’m thinking of investing in a couple of camels. I’m pretty sure they would feel right at home in the drought-stricken hills. It’s ugly and doesn’t look like any real relief in sight."
The National Grazing Lands Coalition will feature four Midwest operations for its third annual bus tour this fall with the theme Grazing the Heartland.
- Katelyn Winberg
Terry Rieckman began his teaching career in the fall of 1983 in the Chester Area School District as a student teacher. My mother, then known as Jolene Hohwieler, was a junior in high school at Chester that year. Little did either of them know that three decades later, Mr. Rieckman would teac…
- Katelyn Winberg
For 42 years, Terry Rieckman has taught agriculture students at the McCook Central High School in Salem, South Dakota, building one of the most successful FFA programs in the state along the way.
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