Antibiotics are considered the crown jewels of modern medicine. But many scientists say that their effectiveness is being eroded by indiscriminate use, both to treat infections in people and to encourage growth in chickens, turkeys, cows and pigs. Read More »
Unlike their West River counterparts, most Day County and northeast South Dakota livestock producers aren’t culling their herds due to drought and/or the specter of high feed prices. Read More »
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. Read More »
Hay prices have jumped dramatically as drought in many of the nation's key hay-producing areas has decimated the supply. Read More »
The learning experiences that 4-H provides have been given a boost through the reorganization of SDSU Extension. Read More »
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. Read More »
Dakota Style continues to put Clark, S.D., on the map—most recently with a booming business in sunflower seeds and kernels. Read More »
More than half of U.S. counties are now disaster areas, 90 percent because of the ongoing drought that has been brutalizing the nation. Read More »
Paul Riley earned a boxful of medals during his time in World War II, but for some reason he never received them. He didn't bother to try to get them, perhaps because he thought it just as well to leave those memories in the past. His widow, Lilas, requested and received her husband's medals earlier this year. Read More »
The town of Henry will soon have a new motel of sorts: An old barn refurbished into the Pepper Slough Lodge. Read More »
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