Events

Please contact Cindy Zenk at (605) 280-4190 or sdsoilhealth@gmail.com for more information or to express your interest in attending our meeting!

Plot Tours:
•Rye Cover Crop Work presented by Ben Brockmueller, SDSU Grad student
•Grazing and Soil Health by Sandeep Kumar, SDSU Associate Professor
•Cover Crop Selection Criteria by Peter Sexton, SDSU Professor/Farm Manager
•Herbicide Impacts on Cover Crops by Gared Shaffer, SDSU Extension Field Specialist
•Corn Grazing by Brad Rops, SDSU Southeast Farm Operations Manager

Indoor Presentations:
•Turning Silage into Beef, Warren Rusche, SDSU Extension Beef Feedlot Management
•Annual Forages at the Southeast Farm, Peter Sexton and Brad Rops, SDSU Southeast Farm
•Stacking Enterprises and Full-Season Cover Crops at the Black Leg Ranch; Jerry Doan
•Q & A – open time for discussion

Integrating Livestock, Cover Crops, & Grazing

-Steve Halverson, Farmer/Rancher, Kennebec, SD
-Adam Ehlers, Farmer/Rancher, Presho, SD
-Ryan Willert, USDA-NRCS

Please RSVP to Jamie Chalcraft at (605) 280-4199 or jamie.soilhealth@sdconservation.net by September 11th.

Topics:

-Selecting The Right Mix For Your Goals
-Interseeding Of Cover Crops
-Cover Crops For Grazing
-Planting Green & Weed Suppression
-Full Season Cover Crops & Marginal Ground

Tour Stops: Eliason Farm, Ryan Larson, Anthony Bly, Bruce Carlson

Please contact Austin Carlson at austin.soilhealth@sdconservation.net (605) 323-8061, or Maddy Rabenhorst at rabenhorst@ncga.com for additional information.

The event is AgriCulture on the Square = it's an opportunity to engage our South Dakota urban families with hands-on agriculture education. An educated consumer is our best customer!

For more information, visit MainStreetSquareRC.com.

Day 1: Keynote speaker, breakout sessions, "Weathering The Storm" Workshop For Producers, Workshop Fee $5

For any questions about the summit, please contact: Krista Ehlert, Ph.D. Assistant Professor & SDSU Extension Range Specialist, krista.ehlert@sdstate.edu or 605-394-2236

The South Dakota Sheep Growers Association’s 82nd Annual Convention will be held at the Holiday Inn in Spearfish, SD on Friday, September 27th and Saturday, September 28th, 2019. The convention continues to provide an excellent opportunity for sheep producers from across the state of SD and surrounding states to gather the latest information on topics relating to sheep and the sheep industry. Our 2-day convention will be full of information, networking and of course, a lot of fun.

Lisa Surber
SDSGA Executive Sect. lisa@sdsheepgrowers.org Cell 406-581-7772

-Grazing Management -Soil Health -Range Management

Speakers Include: Rod Voss, NRCS Range Management Specialist, & Kent Vlieger, NRCS Soil Health Specialist

"Living the Ag Life with a focus on wellness for the people, animals, land and agricultural industry."

Speakers:

-Keynote: Katie Dilse: Better Together -Gary Sides from Zoetis: Animal Health -Terryn Drieling: Unconventional Advocacy- Engaging Folks on (and off) Social Media -Kent Vlieger- USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service -Amanda Blair: Industry News- Cell Based Meat -Secretary of Agriculture Kim Vanneman -Christina Early from Avera: Wellness and Cancer screening -Financial Panel: Financial Stability -Mike Jonhson from First Interstate Bank -Ron Adams from Farm Services Agency -Karen Simmons from Simons & Silver CPA, PC -Kassandra Cross from Gunderson, Palmer, Nelson and Ashmore

Please contact Cindy Zenk at (605) 280-4190 or sdsoilhealth@gmail.com for more information or to express your interest in attending our meeting!