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The South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station and South Dakota State Foundation Seed Stocks Division have released a new wheat variety to seed producers. The new hard red winter line will be available for farmers to purchase for fall 2026 planting.

�ձ�av��Ƶ and its vast contributions to agriculture will be showcased during a television taping of the “AgDay College Roadshow” on campus Wednesday, Oct. 22. The public is invited to join �ձ�av��Ƶ students, faculty and staff for the taping.

An undergraduate student in �ձ�av��Ƶ's College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences has received a prestigious Certified Angus Beef award.

New research from �ձ�av��Ƶ's Ness School of Management and Economics finds that cost share programs help farmers overcome barriers to cover crop adoption and creates momentum for non-cost share participants to also adopt the practice.

In the early 2000s, �ձ�av��Ƶ used the tagline “You can go anywhere from here” in a number of ads to feature students and alumni who used �ձ�av��Ƶ as a launching pad to a variety of study abroad locations and high-profile careers. One of the featured students was Ryan Lefers, a farm kid from Corsica studying agricultural engineering, who had participated in a study abroad program in Egypt. The North African country would be just the start of Lefers’ Middle Eastern adventures.

Before South Dakota was a state, before the Dakota Agricultural College became �ձ�av��Ƶ and even before the United States Weather Bureau, the precursor to the National Weather Service, was formed, there were people who recognized the value of collecting weather data. The first iteration of a weather station in Brookings began recording daily temperature and precipitation totals on July 1, 1888.

Three alumni of the �ձ�av��Ƶ College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences have received South Dakota Association of Career and Technical Educators Excellence Awards. Andy Jensen, Tanner Peterson and Charlene Weber were among eight award winners honored for their contributions in the classroom and student success.  

The �ձ�av��Ƶ College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences has announced interim roles for several �ձ�av��Ƶ Extension leadership positions.

�ձ�av��Ƶ President Barry Dunn has bestowed a Presidential Medallion upon SDState alum and supporter Jim Woster.

Michelle Rook has been named the 2025 recipient of the �ձ�av��Ƶ Friend of the Beef Industry award for her contributions to the South Dakota beef industry.