With the revived interest in poultry come new ideas about how to keep them, including innovative designs for chicken tractors—mobile cages that get chickens outside and scratching on grass and dirt (or in unused corners of your garden, where they fertilize as they go) but that keep them safe from predators.
An advertisement in my mailbox prompts some thinking about payday lending. “It’s like borrowing from family, but without the guilt.” Or maybe, without the accountability.
Hay prices have jumped dramatically as drought in many of the nation’s key hay-producing areas has decimated the supply.
The learning experiences that 4-H provides have been given a boost through the reorganization of SDSU Extension.
An overnight fire in 2011 destroyed a big part of Willow Lake’s downtown—but even if the fire burned down businesses, it also sparked a drive to survive and a phenomenal flurry of community action.
Members of a South African farm group toured eastern South Dakota last week to learn the cultivation practices of no-till and zone tillage farms.
A packed house of supporters couldn’t convince the Day County Commission to reverse a recent decision to slash the ambulance subsidy by nearly 20 percent.
Chris Laingen, an assistant professor of geography at Eastern Illinois University who is working on creating an updated delineation of the Corn Belt, was in South Dakota a few weeks ago and snapped these pictures on his tour. They give…
Dakota Style continues to put Clark, S.D., on the map—most recently with a booming business in sunflower seeds and kernels.
In response to concerns about water management in the state, South Dakota Farmers Union will host a meeting in Britton on Monday, Aug. 6, to address water problems.