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Soil Health Labs Ep. 43: How to Build Farm and Ranch Resilience with Climate Smart Practices

December 19, 2022 Podcast

Get Ready to take Advantage of the Climate-Smart Practice Incentives. In this special podcast episode, we get together with the South Dakota NRCS’s Jessica Michalski and Kent Vlieger to discuss what the upcoming climate smart agriculture and forestry package looks like, what we know, and as of December 2022, what we also don’t yet know.

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 39: How Rangeland Health and Livestock Work to Solve Environmental Issues

September 2, 2022 Podcast

We’re excited to introduce our good friend, Shannon Kulseth-Iverson. Shannon is a native of North Dakota and ranches with her husband, Eric Iverson and her three teenage children out of White River, SD. We caught up with Shannon (yes, she is always on the move) and talked about ranching, native range restoration, and her work…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 36: A Rural Videographer’s Eye-Opening Journey Promoting Soil Health

July 18, 2022 Podcast

In the last seven years, the name of Joe Dickie has become more and more synonymous with high quality video that highlights outstanding farmers and ranchers in South Dakota. Many in the South Dakota agricultural community know and trust Joe, but he is a busy man and doesn’t always get to share his whole story….

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 33: Calving with Nature Cuts Costs for Year-Round Grazing

April 27, 2022 Podcast

In this second of two chats with rancher, Pat Guptill (Quinn, SD), we discuss how he can graze his livestock year-round and (to us, at least) the surprising link between year-round grazing and calving on grass (so when you see fawns out on the prairie, that’s the time to calve in your area). Pat’s basic…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 32: Adaptive Management Applied

March 23, 2022 Podcast

We catch up with Pat Guptill, rancher from Quinn, SD, Pat grazes his base herd year-round and when he has enough grass in the summer, will take on additional stockers. Pat discusses his basic operating philosophy and business model, he shares with us the number 1 thing he attends to: spoiler alert, these are livestock…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 31: Growing Rangeland Resilience

March 8, 2022 Podcast

In this podcast, we talk with Miranda Meehan, NDSU Extension Livestock Environmental Stewardship Specialist. We chat with Miranda about a wide range of subjects that include environmental stewardship and livestock-environmental interactions including: range and riparian ecology, grazing management, integrated crop livestock systems, water quality, and reclamation. Miranda grew up in the agricultural community in North…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 25: Increasing Grass Production Despite Drought

December 8, 2021 Podcast

Bart Carmichael and his wife Shannon run a seed stock operation with their family in Northwest SD, just north of Faith SD. In this interview we kick off with drought – in a 12” rainfall area, Bart says they’re either preparing for a drought or in a drought. In the last 28 years, the Carmichaels…

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