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Soil Health Labs Ep. 44: How Climate Smart Ag Can Make Your Land Work For You

January 10, 2023 Podcast

What’s the soil food web got to do with it? This is a special podcast to prepare our audience for the upcoming Climate Smart Agriculture enhancements to the EQIP and CSP programs, amongst others. In our previous podcast recorded in November 2022, we spoke to South Dakota NRCS’s Jessica Michalski and Kent Vlieger about some…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 41: Ray Archuleta Follows Nature to Deliver Farm/Ranch Profit

October 27, 2022 Podcast

It is a rare pleasure to speak with a person of consequence and have their undivided attention for an hour. Ray Archuleta, who needs little introduction, has been a person of consequence in the lives of Buz Kloot (Soil Health Labs at the University of South Carolina) and Tanse Herrmann, NRCS Grazing Lands Soil Health…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 40: Unlock Year-Round Grazing through Common Sense Forage Plans

September 28, 2022 Podcast

In this, our second chat with Bart Carmichael, rancher out of Faith SD, we quizzed Bart on his approach to year-round grazing where Bart walks us through why he aims to graze year-round, what he does to make this possible and what benefits he sees from this practice. Given the dry conditions experienced at the…

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Soil Health Labs Ep. 37: Biologist-Rancher Renovates Pasture for Wildlife and Livestock

July 27, 2022 Podcast

Dr. Shaun Grassel is a wildlife biologist who works out on the Lower Brule Indian Reservation’s headquarters for the tribe’s Department of Wildlife, Fish and Recreation.  In addition, Shaun has recently taken a more active role in managing his family land in Lower Brule, both in ranching and experimenting with growing native grasses, including big…

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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. 35: State Grazing Lands Specialist Reveals Top Tips for Driving Soil Health

June 10, 2022 Podcast

In this second of two podcasts with Tanse Herrmann, State Grazinglands Soil Health Specialist in South Dakota, we discuss a number of topics including: How can rangeland managers think about soil health principles as applied to rangeland and not just cropland? What makes adaptive grazing managers so successful, what is their secret? What goes on…

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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. 30: The Insights of an Involved Land Owner

February 14, 2022 Podcast

South Dakota NRCS and the Conservation Districts have identified that Non-Operating Landowners (or NOLOs) are one of the key s to moving the soil health needle in that state. Jeannie Franceus is a landowner, yes, but we’d like to coin a new term, she is a Super-Involved Landowner (or SILO) – Jeannie did grow up…

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