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Safety
Food safety education is essential from field to table for entrepreneurs, consumers and businesses.

Economic Considerations for Early Weaning
There is an excellent reason why ranchers use early weaning as a drought management tool: Weaning calves early reduces the amount of feed required to maintain the cow.

Springtime Vaccines: Tools For Healthy Summer Calves
Vaccines can be a valuable tool for cattle producers looking to help keep their calves healthy on summer pasture.

How Are You Empowering Others as Leaders or Employees?
You will be amazed how well people can perform as employees or leaders when you take the time to establish job expectations and then empower them to accomplish them.

Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke: Protecting Your Operation
During periods of extreme heat, operations must take additional steps to protect their employees from heat exhaustion and heat stroke.

Minimizing Hay Storage Loss From Heating or Fires
Successful hay storage is essential to preserving high quality forage, while ensuring desired performance from livestock and deterring economic losses from unwanted hay storage fires.

Heat Stress in Dairy Cows: Is Genetic Selection a Solution?
The summer season is just around the corner, and the knowledge and understanding of the effects of heat stress on cow production and how to mitigate these effects are important for dairy operations.

Swine Respiratory Health: Detecting Multiple Viruses
Over the past decade, surveillance and diagnosis of respiratory agents have been revolutionized by the use of non-invasive techniques such as oral fluids sampling.

Pig Barn Turnover Rates: Challenges & Costs
Employee turnover is inevitable, but how managers respond to it and learn from it determines the resiliency of a pig barn’s future and the level of productivity that is achieved.

How Livable is Your Community?
South Dakota offers great communities for people of all ages and is consistently highly ranked as a great place to age in.