With another hot dry spell hitting South Dakota, the drought map will likely only get redder. Last week’s map from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Drought…
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South Dakota’s beleaguered beekeepers managed to bounce back last year. According to the USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service, South Dakota produced 19.4 million pounds of…
Of course the Yellow Jackets would get on board with this plan: last month, Black Hills State University joined South Dakota State University as an…
Governor Kristi Noem has shown a keen if uninformed and misfocused interest in boosting our dwindling pheasant population; if she read more, maybe she’d consider dedicating…
The Bee Informed Partnership reports that U.S. beekeepers lost 37.7% of their honey bee colonies last winter. That’s the worst loss since BIP started surveying…
If Pat Powers will squawk about backyard chickens as a bird flu risk, he’ll surely buzz about the dangers of backyard bees. At its Monday, May 4…