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4 days ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Planting advances, SD wheat conditions decline May 12, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: Agriculture, News, South DakotaPlanting continues to move at a quick pace in South Dakota. USDA says corn planting is 69 percent complete, a jump of 30 percentage points from the previous week and ahead of average. Corn is 21 percent emerged. More than half of the soybeans are planted with seven percent of the crop emerged.
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4 days ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Good crop emergence ahead of the cold May 12, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, Corn, News, South Dakota, SoybeansA farmer in northeast South Dakota says it’s been one of the earliest planting seasons ever. “We had good planting conditions, we weren’t mudding things in and people moved right along.”Bob Metz says the farm wrapped up planting on Monday, and corn and soybeans are emerging well, so far.
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1 week ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Tar spot spreading in South Dakota May 9, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: Corn, News, South DakotaA plant pathologist says farmers should be on the lookout for tar spot. “We found tar spot in 46 of our 66 counties last year.”Connie Strunk with South Dakota State University Extension says the disease was found at harvest in eastern South Dakota and it will likely show up again this year, but it’s unclear how early.
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1 week ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News South Dakota farmers making good progress May 5, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, News, South DakotaCorn and soybean planting remain ahead of average in South Dakota. USDA says 39 percent of the corn and 25 percent of the soybeans are planted, respectively, with four percent of the corn emerged. Eight percent of the sorghum crop has been planted. Winter wheat is rated 25 percent good to excellent, an improvement from the previous week.
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1 week ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Corn planting will pick up soon May 5, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, Corn, News, South DakotaAn agronomist says the short-term weather forecast should encourage more corn planting across South Dakota and Minnesota. Rick Swenson is with Peterson Farms Seed.
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2 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News A good, early spring in South Dakota May 2, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: 2025 Planting Season, News, South DakotaSouth Dakota farmer Jason Frerichs says the early spring is a win for area farmers. “It was almost too good to be true,” he says. “The forecast didn’t look bad, there wasn’t any snow and it doesn’t look like it’s too cold or wet, so we just got going.”Frerichs says corn and soybeans have been planted in between timely rains.
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2 weeks ago | 
brownfieldagnews.com | South Dakota |Carah Hart
News Special pesticide label granted for red sunflower weevil in South Dakota May 1, 2025 By Carah Hart Filed Under: News, South DakotaSunflower growers in South Dakota can use Malathion to control red sunflower weevils this year. Tom Gere with the South Dakota Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources says the U.S. EPA has granted a special24c label for the state.
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2 weeks ago | 
sdsucollegian.com | South Dakota |Brayden Byers
Collegian Media was named a finalist in multiple categories of regional organizations last month. “The Collegian Report” and producer Annie Witt were the Best Collegiate Newscast finalists at the Upper Midwest Emmy Student Production Awards. The newscast was listed with the student-produced newscasts at the University of South Dakota, St. Cloud State University, and the University of Iowa.
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2 weeks ago | 
sdsucollegian.com | South Dakota |Brayden Byers
The 2025 Jackrabbit Athletic Scholarship Auction set a record for the fourth consecutive year, raising more than $2.55 million this past weekend. The Jackrabbit Athletic Scholarship auction raised $2.55 million last weekend, which set a new record. Over 500 items were bid on either online or in person in a silent auction. Over a thousand people showed up at the Sanford-Jackrabbit Athletic Complex in person for the silent auction event.
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2 weeks ago | 
sdsucollegian.com | South Dakota |Brayden Byers
Four Jackrabbits from the women’s basketball will compete in the 2025 USA Basketball 3X Nationals from May 2-4. Brooklyn Meyer, Madison Mathiowetz, Mahli Abdouch and Claire Sheppard will represent SDSU’s squad. The event will have a total of 16 teams. Games will be played on a half court with a shot clock of 12 seconds and the first team to 21 points or lead after ten minutes will be the winner.
