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Resilience Rodeo - Dominic Harmon - How He Increased His Plant Production & Native Species.

On this week’s “Resilience Rodeo”, Dominic Harmon shares how rotational grazing increased his plant production and variety of native species

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Justin Thompson, SD Rancher, Explains the Unexpected Benefits of Adaptive Grazing Strategies

Justin was raised on the ranch and now runs two ranches, one owned and one leased, one West of Mobridge, SD, and the other about 20 miles

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Resilience Rodeo - Doug Feltman- Controlling Missouri River’s “Green Glacier” with Prescribed Fire

For this week’s “Resilience Rodeo”, rancher Doug Feltman tells us the importance of controlling Missouri River’s ever-expanding “Green...

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Cover Crop Farming Gets National Exposure

Cover cropping is one of the conservation practices considered “climate smart”, so be on the lookout for how this practice may be promoted

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Pat Guptill Talks about Year Round Grazing

Pat Guptill lives in Quinn, South Dakota, a small town just north of the Badlands National Park, on a 7000 acre ranch. In a recent Growing R

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Pete Bauman – helping ranchers and farmers find the next right thing to do.

Pete Bauman is a Natural Resources and Wildlife Field Specialist for SDSU Extension. He is an expert in range, pasture, and grassland manage

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David and Hui-Chun Johnson reveal why they were attracted to Adaptive Multipaddock (AMP) Grazing.

David Johnson is a molecular biologist serving as Research Scientist at the Institute for Sustainable Agricultural Research at New Mexico

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Discussing Adaptive Grazing Management with Pat Guptill

Pat Guptill lives in Quinn, South Dakota, on a 7000-acre ranch. In a recent interview with Growing Resilience, Pat explains what Adaptive Gr

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Shaun Grassel discusses his interest in and Knowledge of Grasses Native to South Dakota.

Talking at length about growing grass, finding better ways to treat the soil and the creatures that are linked to that soil keep Shaun Grass

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Emily Helms, NRCS’s State Rangeland Specialist in SD, explains why Rangeland Diversity is Important

Emily Helms holds a degree in Range Management and Agronomy from South Dakota State University. She was working toward soil health in 2012,

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Joe Dickie links soil health to Climate Change

Videographer Joe Dickie discusses soil health, mental health and the art of getting information from Men of the Soil in a conversation with

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Catching Up With Tanse Herrmann

"Instead of trying to force nature to a certain outcome, try observing how nature naturally works and then accommodating that in their

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Jeannie Franceus Discusses Being an Involved Land Owner

A fundamental explanation of Adaptive Grazing Management by an involved Non Operating Land Owner. Jeannie Franceus grew up on a farm.

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Resilience Rodeo: Larry Wagner shares how to extend the grazing season

On this week’s “Resilience Rodeo”, rancher Larry Wagner tells us about how utilizing both grasses and cover crops extends his grazing season

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Ray Archuleta of Netflix Fame Reveals How Following Nature Can Deliver Farm/Ranch Profit

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Resilience Rodeo - Jessica Michalski - How this rancher of 22 years has created amazing changes.

Joining us on the “Rodeo” this week is rancher and SD NRCS State Resource Conservationist, Jessica Michalski.

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Resilience Rodeo - Rich Grim tells us the one thing he would change.

This week’s “Resilience Rodeo” comes from Rich Grim, a rancher and proponent of using prescribed fire to combat Eastern Red Cedar from...

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Resilience Rodeo - Darin & Cutler Michalski: Diversity is not just limited to types of grass.

Main focus is cow-calf, and we do row crops, small grains, cover crops, alfalfa different types of hay, some millets, and sudangrass.”

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Resilience Rodeo - A. Jay Heiss on rotational grazing, and his soil health responsibility.

This week on the “Resilience Rodeo”, A. Jay Heiss shares his inspiration for rotational grazing and leaving the soil better for the future.

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Story Science: Asking the right questions and actually listening to producers

The lessons a scientist learned from analysis of rancher interviews As I close in on completing graduate school, I’ve really found my...