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Suicide Awareness and Why It Matters

Suicide is preventable, and everyone has a role to help save lives and create healthy and strong individuals, families, and communities in South Dakota.

Screen Time in a Digital Age

The relationship between overall health and wellbeing in relation to screen time use is described as complex and dependent on a variety of factors, such as developmental periods, types of devices used, and demographic and contextual factors.

High Tunnels

A focus on high tunnel education benefits the growing population of specialty crop producers across South Dakota through updated education and expansion of high tunnel research. Extension programming continues to include extensive training on high tunnel assembly, management, and cropping innovations.

Protest and Grievance Policies

The purpose of this procedure is to promote a prompt and fair process for resolving a prior to show and in-show applicable grievance.

Live Cattle Basis

Futures prices are from organized trades that provide price information for buyers and sellers of commodities. Local cash prices can be compared to futures prices using a basis measure. With an expected basis measure, producers can observe futures prices and infer cash prices.

Feeder Cattle Basis

Feeder cattle basis levels observed during 2025 specific to South Dakota locations were higher than expected throughout 2025 and sharply higher in November and December, perhaps reflecting a tight supply of feeder cattle nationally.

Connecting Nutrition and Conservation: The Importance of CPS 592

Conservation Practice Standard (CPS) 592 is a practical feed management framework that helps producers move toward greater profitability, accountability, and sustainability without sacrificing performance.