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Cover Crops 2019: What to Plant When
As many Midwest producers look to cover crops to build soil health and provide supplemental forage after a soggy spring, many questions are arising regarding management decisions, specifically, species selection and planting timing.
Research Report: Warm-Season Living Mulch Impacts on Cucumber Yield and Disease Symptoms
A 2025 trial in Brookings, South Dakota aimed to detect the influences of various warm-season cover crop living mulches on pest pressure in tomatoes and cucumbers and the interactions between both grafted and nongrafted tomatoes and cucumbers and the living mulch.
McCrory Gardens Trial Report
Learn about annual and perennial flowers that are well-suited for South Dakota gardens based on eastern South Dakota research trials.
Master Gardener Volunteer Program
SDSU Extension’s Master Gardener program develops gardening enthusiasts into expert volunteers who share their research-based knowledge with community members across the state.
Biological Agronomy
Biological agronomy is an adaptive soil management system used to build soil microbiology through intensive regenerative practices that increase carbon and nutrient availability for profitable crop production.
Does Kernel Processing Silage Pay for Growing and Finishing Beef Cattle?
Kernel processing involves passing harvested silage through a set of rollers mounted on the chopper. But does this extra step result in improved efficiency and reduced costs of gain?
Aster Yellows - Plant Pest on the Plains: How you can get involved in this important research
Aster yellows phytoplasma, best known as Aster Yellows disease or Onion Yellows disease, is commonly observed in purple coneflowers across the Great Plains. SDSU Extension is monitoring and modeling its distribution in the region, and you can help!
Becoming a Master Gardener Volunteer
If you enjoy gardening, volunteering, and helping your community, the Master Gardener program may be for you!
Why Precision Agriculture?
When precision agriculture comes into a conversation a few questions arise. Three of those questions might be: What is precision agriculture? How does precision agriculture make our farm more profitable? What do I do with all this data?
Feeding Hybrid Rye Grain to Cattle
Feedlot researchers at SDSU were approached to evaluate the potential for hybrid rye to be used in cattle finishing diets. See what they found in terms of cattle performance and feed efficiency.