Kelly Melius was farming, living on the place where he grew up, when one of his landlords put 1,000 acres of land he was renting into the Conservation Reserve Program with little warning. He knew he had to create a part-time job for himself. Read More »
Don Macke of the Center for Rural Entrepreneurship and Beth Davis of Dakota Resources shared a few ideas for where a community should start if they want to build up their own community of entrepreneurs. Read More »
Chad Homan explains the beginning of his business this way: “My brother Brian and I decided to start a business together, and we wanted to do something that we both liked and would properly showcase the talents the good Lord gave us.” Read More »
A new companion site to Dakotafire.net is launching today. Join the conversation to help revive our rural communities! Read More »
Many of the problems that South Dakota’s rural communities are facing now are likely to get worse in the next 23 years, if population projections from the South Dakota Rural Life and Census Data Center prove accurate. Read More »
The wild hog shot near Britton on Oct. 29 is likely the first one ever killed in South Dakota. Read More »
As ambulance departments across the rural Dakotas struggle to find enough volunteers, the director of the Faulk County Ambulance has an idea to make it easier for people to serve: Let them complete much of the training required online on their own time, instead of requiring that they travel to a bigger town to take the necessary classes. Read More »
Rural communities depend on having a fire department close enough to help before fire spreads and does significant damage to property or, worse, threatens lives. Unfortunately, the number of people who are willing, able and available to drop everything to fight a fire in their community is dwindling. Volunteer fire departments in the Dakotas and in much of the nation are having difficulty finding enough people to fill their ranks. Read More »
One old building on Rod Evans' farm had no use that he and his brother could see. So they came up with one. Read More »
Educator M.M. Guhin was an advocate for rural schools in the Dakotas and beyond. Read More »
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