SD Corn

The South Dakota Corn office is relocating within Sioux Falls.

From here..

To here..

New office address:

4712 S. Technopolis Drive

Sioux Falls, SD 57106

Office phone and fax numbers along with office emails will all remain the same but may down during the next couple of days.

Corn Comments Podcast with Jim Woster.

Each South Dakota farmer feeds 155 people on average each year. But the world continues to grow. In the next 40 years, farmers will need to grow as much food as they have in the past 10,000 years. Now that’s a challenge, but we can do it. Thanks to human ingenuity, farmers are producing five times as much corn as they did in the 1930′s using 20% less land along with less water and fertilizer while protecting natural resources.

Farmers really are the True Environmentalists.

Also, don’t forget about GrowingOn Part 2 with Kevin Kimberley this February. Register online or by calling the office at 605-334-0100.

To provide South Dakota farmers and ranchers with access to data in the field, South Dakota State Cooperative Extension’s iGrow has created free mobile applications providing on the go information available on certain smart phone and tablet devices.

These applications instantly deliver assistance to growers whether it’s identifying pests or keeping grazing records. Having access to  information allows producers to reference the available data when faced with important management decisions in the fast-paced world of production agriculture.  Making these mobile tools available will not only allow farmers to yield more, but become better stewards of the land.

The available iGrow mobile applications are:

Thistles of South Dakota

Soybean Diseases of South Dakota

NPIPM Soybean Guide

Grazing Records

Noxious Weeds of South Dakota

Click on the following link for a complete application listing:

http://www.sdstate.edu/sdces/store/MobileApps/index.cfm

Do you care about clean water? Assuming you said yes puts you into the same boat as farmers. While farmers need water to grow their crops, they also understand their role in lessening the amount of applied nutrients that excess water can carry away.

Researchers at South Dakota State University are working with farmers on a new project which will enhance the quality of water leaving tiled farmland, lessening the amount of nutrients carried downstream. These projects are called denitrifying bioreactors, which are basically giant filters consisting of wood chips which will absorb the nitrogen from water exiting the field through drain tile.

Just how much can these projects remove? Similar projects in Iowa and Minnesota show nitrate reductions of between 50-70%.

The advantages of these bioreactors would be that very little land would be taken out of production, they can be retrofitted to current drainage projects, they require very little maintenance and there is no reduction to the effectiveness of the drainage.

Construction of four to six separate projects in South Dakota will begin this spring. To learn more about the denitrifying bioreactors project, please visit the following site:

http://www.sdstate.edu/abe/wri/research-projects/bioreactors.cfm

Corn Comments Podcast with Jim Woster.

No-till acres continue to grow in South Dakota by leaps and bounds, from 30,000 acres in 1990 to 5 million in 2010. Their are multiple benefits to no-till including reduced runoff and erosion, increased organic matter and carbon sequestration in the soil.

Because of no-till’s growing popularity, South Dakota Corn has dedicated one day of GrowingOn Part 2 specifically to no-till and strip-till practices with Kevin Kimberley of Kimberley Ag Consulting on February 15th at the Sioux Falls Convention Center starting at 9am and running until 4pm. The seminar is FREE but you must pre-register either online or by calling the office at 605-334-0100.