Category: News
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Dakota Lakes is expanding! This past fall, 480 acres with large areas of Highmore soils (a very common glacial till soil) came up for sale just two miles north of Dakota Lakes' main farm. After a successful bid at auction, Dakota Lakes took possession of the land to begin soil sampling and planning.
Categories: NewsMonday, February 12, 2024
During the cover crop grazing demonstration at Dakota Lakes Research Farm during the fall of 2023, yearlings were given access to swathed cover crops, cover crop regrowth, corn stalks, and supplemental grain. The yearlings gained an average of 2.2 pounds per head each day.
Categories: NewsWednesday, January 17, 2024
Always looking for more efficient ways of feeding cattle, the team at Dakota Lakes put feed bunks on skids so the bunks can be moved with an irrigation rig. An electric fence suspended from the rig limits the livestock's progress down the field, so they get access to the cover crop in the field at a....
Categories: NewsFriday, December 15, 2023
Dakota Lakes Research Farm recently took delivery of a Ford Lightning electric pickup, just one part of their strategy to become fossil fuel neutral.
Categories: NewsThursday, November 16, 2023
Tuesday, Oct. 17, offered up a perfect October afternoon in rural South Dakota, with the wind gusting, the sun glinting off of Whitlock Bay in the distance, and the occasional bellowing of a recently-weaned calf.
Occasional because the calf could still see, smell and hear mama cow, who was grazing ....
Categories: NewsFriday, October 13, 2023
Join Dakota Lakes to learn about fenceline weaning, cover crops, and other livestock concerns at Cronin Farms near Gettysburg.
Categories: NewsSaturday, August 19, 2023
Recent research at Dakota Lakes Research Farm shows that seeding cover crops after wheat harvest in moisture-deficient years is likely to reduce yields of the following cash crop.
Categories: News, ResearchSunday, August 6, 2023
At the Dakota Lakes field day on Thursday, July 6, 2023, Hoven, S.D., Dakota Lakes board member Brett Huber talked about a July 7, 2022, storm that completely took out a 200-acre field of sunflowers. Faced with the prospect of a bare field for the remainder of the season, Huber, who farms in partner....
Categories: NewsFriday, April 21, 2023
Dakota Lakes Research Farm is seeking a full-time Fabrication Technician to join our team near Pierre, South Dakota. Contribute to the field of regenerative ag through equipment maintenance and design plus field and livestock work.
Categories: NewsTuesday, February 1, 2022
Big Shoes to Fill at Dakota Lakes Research Farm, by Ariana Schumacher
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