Grazing

BROOKINGS -- Winter feed represents one of the largest costs for a livestock production enterprise. One alternative to limit costs resulting from harvest/purchase of hay or feeding of hay is grazing pasture that has been stockpiled for winter. "Allocation of feed resources available...

RAPID CITY (AP) -- A proposal to expand bison grazing in Badlands National Park in southwestern South Dakota is being questioned by some neighboring cattle ranchers who fear it could harm their operations. The park's bison herd, which has been confined to a 100-square-mile area for...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- Farmers and ranchers in the Dakotas affected by drought will be able to use Conservation Reserve Program acres for emergency haying or grazing after Monday's announcement by USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack. Vilsack in his announcement says lands not yet classified...

HURON (AP) -- The South Dakota Farmers Union is urging Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to open Conservation Reserve Program acres in South Dakota to haying and grazing to combat the lingering drought. Farmers Union President Doug Sombke says in a letter to Vilsack sent Wednesday...

BROOKINGS -- Winter pastures are an integral part of many cow/calf operations in South Dakota, providing valuable grazing, along with protection from seasonal weather. Many ranchers defer grazing these special pastures during the growing season in order to protect production, says...

BROOKINGS -- Winter pastures are an integral part of many cow/calf operations in South Dakota, providing valuable grazing along with protection from seasonal weather. Many ranchers defer grazing these special pastures during the growing season in order to protect production, says...

SIOUX FALLS (AP) -- A South Dakota rancher has been sentenced to 1 ½ years of probation and fined $2,500 for defrauding the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Seventy-one-year-old Donald Dunlavy of Clark also was ordered to pay $500 in restitution. U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says Dunlavy...