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Best Management Practices for Corn Silage Harvest

Ensiling involves many different components to ensure a successful harvest and high-quality, safe feedstuff. Learn some expert tips to consider when chopping and storing corn silage to maximize the value and quality of your harvest.

A muture red currant shrub in a landscape with bright-red berries throughout.

Currants: How to Grow It

Currants are small shrubs that can provide fruit even in partially or lightly shaded locations. Learn some expert tips for planting, growing, and harvesting them in this resource!

Seven different prairie flowers that have gone to seed arranged on a tabletop.

Native Seed Hand Harvest Guidelines

Hand harvest of native plant seed is a low-cost and low-tech method suitable for collecting seeds for small-scale use. Learn some important guidelines for harvesting, storing, and stratifying native plant seeds.

Gooseberry bush in a garden with bright, red berries dangling from its branches.

Gooseberry: How to Grow It

Gooseberries are small shrubs that can provide fruit even in partially or lightly shaded locations. Learn some expert tips for planting, growing, and harvesting them in this resource!

Growing Sweet Corn Successfully in South Dakota

Sweet corn is a staple crop with many different varieties, which each bring their own unique qualities influencing flavor, texture, and shelf life. Learn some expert tips for growing it in South Dakota gardens!

Yellow toadflax plants flowering in a grassy area beside a field.

Yellow Toadflax Has Begun Producing Seeds: Scout before treating infested areas

Yellow toadflax is a perennial weed that infests pasture and rangeland across South Dakota. This year, with an abundance of heat and moisture, plants flowered in early August and now have started to produce seeds.

Winter Wheat and Nitrogen: Decisions for 2026 Growing Season

With fertilizer representing one of the largest variable costs in wheat production, inefficient nitrogen use can quickly erode profit margins. This being said, an emphasis should be placed on how to improve nutrient management during the 2026 growing season.

Multicolored Asian lady beetle, female mosquito, and boxelder bug.

Insects Are Being a Nuisance This Fall

The weather is changing, and many of us are noticing an uptick in the nuisance bites caused by several insects. The continued warm weather is going to increase the activity of all insects, including the ones that are causing us displeasure.

Examples of Wild violet, Creeping Bellflower, and Ground Ivy growing on a lawn.

Perennial Weed Control in Lawns and Turf With Fall Herbicide Applications

Early fall is great time to control perennial weeds in lawns, including Wild violet, Creeping Bellflower, Ground Ivy, and Canada Thistle. Learn some expert tips selecting the right herbicides to manage these difficult-to-control weeds this fall.

Northern Corn Rootworms on sunflowers, zinnias, and dahlia flowers.

Corn Rootworm Presence in Cut Flowers

Multiple cut flower farms in Eastern South Dakota have reported corn rootworms on a variety of crops, including sunflowers, zinnias, and dahlias. Careful attention to species present, their timing, and the damage they cause can help inform integrated pest management strategies.